Here is a link to a site that I found interesting. Although he favors WMA lossless for his collection--which many people here would disagree with--he does offer a good discussion on using EAC and why a lossless format is his preference.. Disclaimer: I am NOT taking a side on FLAC vs WMA. There is some good content here regardless of what you think about the format choice. http://www.virroaudio.net/ripping/EACconfig.htm
-----Original Message-----
From: Todd Fields [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tue 4/19/2005 5:44 PM
To: Slim Devices Discussion
Cc:
Subject: Re: [slim] Re: Just getting started...
--- 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.
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