--- bjmacdow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Out of curiosity...how much time would it take to burn a > standard 12 > track CD in EAC to Flac and/or LAME?
This depends greatly on three things: 1) The speed of your CD drive - Obviously, the faster your drive can extract the audio the quicker the overall process will move. 2) The condition of your CD's - One of the primary reasons everyone uses EAC is that it has a "secure" mode that reads every bit on your CD at least twice to make sure you get a bit perfect rip. Therefore, EAC takes at a minimum twice as long to extract your audio even if you CD is in pristine condition. If on the second read it detects an error it re-reads it again and again until either it perfectly extracts the data or determines that it cannot be read and fails. During this process on a badly damaged disc it can slow the read process to well below 1x. I ripped a CD once with EAC that had portions that I could not even play on any other CD player because it was in such bad shape and got a bit perfect copy but the process took 8 hours. 3) The speed of your processor - Once the audio has been extracted (into a WAV format) it must be encoded using your chosen compression format (MP3 or FLAC). This is a very processor intensive process. It can take forever on an older computer. If I have a CD in pretty good shape I can rip it using EAC in secure mode and encode it using LAME (MP3) with the --alt-preset switch in ten minutes or so. I have an AMD 2800+ processor with 1GB RAM and a Plextor Premium 52x CD drive. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
