What do you have the compression level set at? I did some experimenting with EZ CD-DA Extractor a few months ago, ripping to FLAC, and found a huge increase in ripping time for compression settings 6, 7, or 8, without much benefit in terms of storage space saved (though, with 2,000 CDs, every little bit helps, I guess).
I ripped about 200 CDs at compression level 5, and they averaged between 2.5 and 3 minutes per CD on a system with a slower CPU (AMD Sempron 3100+) and less memory (768GB) than yours. On my system at least, level 5 was the sweet spot in terms of space savings versus ripping speed. To find that sweet spot, I varied the compression setting and watched my CPU monitor while ripping ... when CPU utilization approached 100%, I figured I'd found the spot where the compression work (which is CPU intensive) was just keeping up with the CDROM. I have since switched to WMA Lossless and am using Windows Media Player to rip with, and the ripping speed is similar to what I experienced with EZ CD-DA Extractor. -- Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2848 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21544 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
