Hey guys, some of you may remember that I recently resurrected a G3/266
DT from the trash. In anycase, it didn't have a CDROM drive so I got a
Matshita CR-583 8x ATAPI one which arrived yesterday (PC drive). Well,
the drive was recognized under OS 9.1 but I could not run any programs
off the CD. Audio playback was fine thru the Apple CD Player but MP3
encoding thru iTunes or SoundJam didn't work and hanged the system.
At that point, I installed the CDROM ToolKit 3.0.2 which made things
fine. Audio playback is fine, CD access and program running off the CD
is fine. The ONLY thing that is not fine is the MP3 or any encoding off
audio CDs. It is SOOOO slow (0.2x). It seems that the CD spins up,
reads a little and stops, then spins up again and so on which makes the
encoding very very slow. From what I read in the CDROM Toolkit's
manual, the actual decoding is handled by QuickTime, the CDROM Toolkit
just provides the driver. Changing the cache settings for the CDROM
didn't help at all. Installing and using InTech's SpeedTools made
things worse, stuttering audio playback and hangs at iTunes decoding.
As you may have guessed, any ideas on this will be appreciated.
PS I don't care that much about decoding off audio CDs, this machine
stays at work but it is still bugging me...
PS2 Even if I can't do anything about this problem, the CDROM was still
a bargain at $15 shipped.
Thanks guys.
paris
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