EAC can be more accurate than iTunes on damaged discs. It retries and may be able to recover the error, or at least report it to you. iTunes doesn't do this.
But when trying to recover errors, EAC won't be fast. On undamaged CDs, iTunes is as good as EAC. BTW EAC in "burst" mode should be much faster, almost as fast as iTunes. I haven't tried this and I'm not sure if it will report errors, but AccurateRip will. You could just go back and re-rip in secure mode the tracks that AccurateRip had a problem with. Incidentally, when you're ripping, you're bound by drive I/O speed. When you're encoding, you're bound by CPU arithmetic performance. So upgrading your drive won't help with encoding speed, and upgrading your CPU won't help with ripping speed. Laptops can be bad at both. -- Mark Lanctot ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34156 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
