Time it takes to rip a track

mihochan · Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2003 12:35 pm Post subject: Time it takes to rip a track

Hi,

Its taking me about 30mins to rip a 4 minute CD track with 'cdparanoia'.

How long is it taking other people and what can be done?!
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krusty_ar · Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2003 1:12 pm Post subject:

It strongly depends on the power of your system, but some people is complaining about linux ripping speed, the thing that probably you want to check is that cdparanoia has a very "paranoic" error checking feature, it can be disabled tho, so speed will increase at the cons of (maybe) some glitches in the wavs.
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museX · n00b Joined: 29 Nov 2002 Posts: 7

its taking me about 30 mins to rip a whole cd of about 45mins at 24x with cdparanoia, with paranoia active.

You should disable paranoia if your system is too slow.This really speeds up the rip

mihochan · Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2003 7:06 am Post subject:

My system is not that slow.
1G celeron with a fair bit of memory.

No, something strange happened to my system during an upgrade once and I can't sort it out.

Even if I remove paranoia the process is hardly fast.

I think that it must be something in the kernel configuration but I don't really know where to look.

Tom
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museX · n00b Joined: 29 Nov 2002 Posts: 7

are you sure you have scsi emulation?

Im not sure but it may speed up the rip

krusty_ar · Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2003 12:24 pm Post subject:

check

mihochan · Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2003 11:29 pm Post subject:

Thanks I think that you've solved a problem that I've had for quite some time now.

The problem seems to have been that I hadn't loaded the scsi emulation module into the kernel.

dma was already enabled for the hard drive but not for the cd rom.

Thanks again,

Tom
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Malakin · Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2003 2:36 am Post subject:

I was curious so I tested out cdparanoia. Using a 48X LG burner I ripped a 51 minute pressed audio CD in about 2 minutes (using -Z), so it's pretty quick if everything is working properly ;)

jingram · n00b Joined: 09 Feb 2003 Posts: 12 Location: Urbana, IL

I've never used SCSI emulation before, but now I'm interested. Is there anything I need to do except compile it into the kernel? Does it usually speed up CD ripping?l

Phreakazoid_ · Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2003 9:12 am Post subject:

hm
I've never used SCSI emulation... usually get about 1.5x speed rips with full paranoia in cdparanoia, with 52x atapi cd-rom.

mihochan · Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2003 1:51 pm Post subject:

actually I take back my last post.
I still need to fiddle around.
I'm hopeful you have put me onto the right solution though.

Tom
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Malakin · Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2003 10:12 pm Post subject:

mihochan · Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2003 12:48 pm Post subject:

I've been fiddling around and not got anywhere.

I can't work out how to ensure that the SCSI emulation takes precedence over the the IDE driver.

Devices in linux really drive me crazy. Partly, I think it is because I've never been able to find a good description of what is supposed to be happening and how it happens. Most of the stuff I've read is recipes to get some particular thing working. If it doesn't work then someone like myslef is completely lost.

I've followed the CD writer HOWTO pretty closely but no luck.
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