sl789;637195 Wrote: > Hi all ! > > I consider to built a new desktop instead of my more then 5 years old > Dell Dimension 410. One of the task I keep in mind is ripping my CD > collection to Flac ( I have many CDs and only a small part is > digitalised). > > I want to reuse CD reader I have now ( I have Toshiba TS-H553A ) but > moterboard / processor / hdd will be all new (I can get Intel Sandy > Bridge and a good new gamiing mobo as well as SSD with discount. I > consider to put 8G of memory I'll use dbPoweramp ripper. > > My qiestions are : > > what will be the performanace bottleneck when ripping CDs proper - the > speed of CD reader, CPU, memory or harddrive ?
CD reader. By a very large margin. > Should I invest in SSD ? For what? It won't help make CD ripping any faster, but if I were building a new Windows desktop computer I would definitely buy a smaller SSD for the operating system, programs, and some data. An 80-120 GB drive should be more than large enough. > Whould it be much faster not to rip CDs to Flac directly, but to rip > them first into Wave file on SSD to make it as fast as possible. and > then run converter in a batch mode overnight by converting Wave to flac > and putting them on harddrive on my NAS Rip and encode directly to Flac. Flac encoding is very fast, so adds very little time to the ripping process. With EAC you can tell it to encode to Flac while it rips the next track, so it really adds zero time. I would guess dbpoweramp can work similarly. If you like/need to modify tags at all, I would rip to a local drive, edit tags or fiddle with cover art while the next CD is being ripped, then move the finished folders to your NAS. > As I mentioned I am only concerned with the time of CD ripping since I > need manually put Cds into reader and remove them, so I would like to > minimize the time the single CD is ripped. > > Advice will be much appreciate it. Another way ( I don't know if this > is possible is to rent on of these CD readers that you can put 50 or > more CDs into a stack and it automatically process it. I have no idea > how much it costs to rent/buy Make sure you use AccuRip. On CDs in its database, it car rip a CD very quickly, or fall back to slower methods for CDs that are not. Take your time. Make sure your tags are correct when you rip the CDs, not after you discover odd problems and misspellings on the server. It takes more time to do right, but you'll only have to do it once. If ripping your CD collection takes several months, so what. Rip the CDs that are your favorites first. If you want to listen to something that day, rip it. Don't turn the process into grudge work. -- JJZolx ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88402 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
