Well, you've got an 8x drive...now 40x drives usually "rip" music from cd's
at a max of 16x. Does that explain it for you? (btw older drives...around
4x and earlier) aren't even able to rip music from cd's)
Justin
on 9/25/01 4:06 PM, Paris Margaritis at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hey guys, some of you may remember that I recently resurrected a G3/266
> DT from the trash. In anycase, it didn't have a CDROM drive so I got a
> Matshita CR-583 8x ATAPI one which arrived yesterday (PC drive). Well,
> the drive was recognized under OS 9.1 but I could not run any programs
> off the CD. Audio playback was fine thru the Apple CD Player but MP3
> encoding thru iTunes or SoundJam didn't work and hanged the system.
>
> At that point, I installed the CDROM ToolKit 3.0.2 which made things
> fine. Audio playback is fine, CD access and program running off the CD
> is fine. The ONLY thing that is not fine is the MP3 or any encoding off
> audio CDs. It is SOOOO slow (0.2x). It seems that the CD spins up,
> reads a little and stops, then spins up again and so on which makes the
> encoding very very slow. From what I read in the CDROM Toolkit's
> manual, the actual decoding is handled by QuickTime, the CDROM Toolkit
> just provides the driver. Changing the cache settings for the CDROM
> didn't help at all. Installing and using InTech's SpeedTools made
> things worse, stuttering audio playback and hangs at iTunes decoding.
>
> As you may have guessed, any ideas on this will be appreciated.
>
> PS I don't care that much about decoding off audio CDs, this machine
> stays at work but it is still bugging me...
>
> PS2 Even if I can't do anything about this problem, the CDROM was still
> a bargain at $15 shipped.
>
> Thanks guys.
>
> paris
>
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