Ripping music CDs - program that is good with multiple optical drives
max
maximilianbianco at gmail.com
Wed Jun 11 21:53:46 UTC 2008
Robin Laing wrote:
> Marland V. Pittman wrote:
>> Todd Zullinger wrote:
>>> Marland V. Pittman wrote:
>>>
>>>> Craig White wrote:
>>>>
>
>> Yeah, I think encoding will be slower than ripping, but, I'd be glad
>> to separate the tasks and do some huge batch encoding if it let me go
>> through the ripping part faster. I don't know if any of the programs
>> have a "batch encode" check box or option.
>>
>> I do have that quad Opteron box, so I'm kind of hoping to get some
>> sort of efficiency out of it. I haven't looked at many benchmarks to
>> see if I'll benefit, but maybe running multiple instances with some
>> sort of processor affinity setting would be better in this case... who
>> knows.
>>
>
>
> I prefer Grip and would be interested in how this goes.
>
> I have started ripping to flac with the maximum compression (not worried
> about time) and let it go. Drive space is cheap, time isn't. Once I
> get a full drive ripped, I then make a backup on a different drive that
> is outside the computer.
>
> If you get it working, write a howto.
I'll second that, i am always willing to switch to a more efficient
method and a good how-to is hard to find.
> There are some media converters available from yum that we use when we
> want to get the songs onto our portable player. My iRiver will play ogg
> files. I am looking for one that uses memory cards and will play flac
> files.
>
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