Slow Digital Audio Extraction

[mikkl]

I use KAudioCreator for ripping CDs to mp3's and I find on my new machine that the ripping stage of the process is quite slow, perhaps even slower than my 7 year old machine I just replaced.  CPU usage during ripping is nearly 0% and encoding is nearly instantaneous.  According to QPxTool, this drive (HP GH60L DVD-RAM) supports DAE.

Is there a way to improve audio extraction from CDs?

mikkl

[old_guy]

mikkl
I had not tried KAudioCreator before, but just did. Ripping one song took over 5 min. I usually use K3b - same song took less than 1 min.

Earl

[mikkl]

Sounds like I will have to check out k3b.  I like KAudioCreator because it allows me to pass the command line options for the way I like to encode my mp3s.  Specifically, I use

lame -V3 --vbr-new --tt %{title} --ta %{artist} --tl %{albumtitle} --ty %{year} --tn %{number} --tg %{genre} %f %o

I now need to see if there is a way to have k3b do something similar.  A quick glance at the interface suggests I need to do some research (again) on these settings to see how to get them to match the gui inputs.

Thanks.

mikkl

[Xero]

Try Asunder, it rips thru them like nothing else.

[Was_Just19]

I use KAudioCreator for ripping CDs to mp3's and I find on my new machine that the ripping stage of the process is quite slow, perhaps even slower than my 7 year old machine I just replaced.  CPU usage during ripping is nearly 0% and encoding is nearly instantaneous.  According to QPxTool, this drive (HP GH60L DVD-RAM) supports DAE.

Is there a way to improve audio extraction from CDs?

mikkl

Quite often in the past what slowed down ripping for me was a setting for error correction ......  it slowed down rips when using anything that was integrated into KDE .....  including K3b I think.

Check out the settings and adjust to suit preferences ....

KDECC - Hardware - Multimedia - Audio CDs

Error Correction, encoding Priority and more ....

With error correction set and an unclean or scratched or even homeburned media, the rip can take extra time.