FWIW, I've been using "grip". It is the standard gnome ripping program. It uses cdparanoia, which you can google to get it's claims. The program is multithreaded, so it rips and encodes at the same time.
On an amd x64 dual core 4400 (sadly no longer state of the art), the ripping starts at about 1.7x and eventually reaches 5x. This is due to the data rate of the CD changing as the tracks move outward. [Constant angular velocity means the linear velocity changes as you move outward.] Encoding is about 7x, so it is never an issue until you reach the last track. The ripper handles the Id3v2 tags. Figure I'm ripping at about 3.5x, so about 15 to 20 minutes per CD, depending on how much music it contains. BTW, I'm using software RAID. This is relatively cheap, and the backup is of course automatic. I'm not sure I'd go the route of buying a raid controller since I don't need the disk performance. But if you are going out and buying 500gbyte drives on a weekly basis, it might be worth your effort to build a server for music, especially if you get one capable of software raid. The Nvidia raid is recognized by opensuse, so the installation is relatively simple. One thing I don't want to do is rip my CDs more than once. This gets old very fast. I'm a real seagate fan. Never had one fail. They come with 5 year warranties. -- gariac ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gariac's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12871 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38688 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
