What ripping program are you using? The way you're describing it, it seems to be encoding at the same time as it's ripping. This is not usually the case - usually it extracts to .WAV and then encodes once the .WAV is done.
Encoding takes as many processor cycles as it can. The faster the processor, the faster the encoding will take, but encoding should always make for a large CPU load regardless of how fast the CPU is. It's an intensive process and it makes no sense to have a processor not devoting its full resources to the task. Extraction (as opposed to encoding) is a trivial operation in terms of CPU usage. An optical drive is one of the slowest components in your computer. The processor is many orders of magnitude faster. What could slow it down though is error correction. Optical drives are not manufactured as well as they once were and newer, cheaper ones extract with more errors. If you're using a program like EAC, it will have to work slower and harder. This still shouldn't consume CPU, it'll just be slower. Do you still have your older optical drive? You might want to try that out. But this really depends on the ripping program you're using. If this program has any error correction, speed should never be a consideration because it will only rip as fast as the disc condition allows. You may have forgotten a setting when you migrated the program over. Also - don't expect a huge encoding time decrease. See 'this chart' (http://tinyurl.com/evqjq). Encoding time, LAME MP3 3.97 beta 1, A64 Venice 3000+, 4:54 encoding time, P4 2.6 GHz, 5:11 encoding time. The article comments: > Even today, the Pentium 4 3.06 with RAMBUS technology makes a very > strong showing, and is able to beat a current AMD Sempron 3400+. Results for Ogg Vorbis on the previous page are similar. But this does mean you should expect a modest encoding-time decrease. This does not address the ripping/extraction process though. -- Mark Lanctot ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22679 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
