Gregory Hosler wrote:
> 4:00 song in :30 secs ? I have a 2x cdrom reader and it takes me nearly
> as long as the song is, to rip it. My understanding is that cdparanoia
> is, well, paranoid, and re-reads each sector 3 times, flushing the buffers
> between the reads to ensure a true re-read (as opposed to a re-read from
> cache), which will effectively reduce any fast cdrom reader to about 2x
> anyways...
>
cdda2wav seems fairly paranoid (it does scratch detection and such) and
I have gotten very few bad reads. I have a REALLY cheap IDE 24x CDROM
made by Momitsu (?) and really humms when ripping files. My 12x SCSI
Plextor at work works about 2x speeds, however...
jf
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