A Rippingly Bad Time

Pipe & Slippers

Pipe & Slippers

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I start ripping some cds last night with wmp on the system per my sig and I'm thinking this is a bit slow

So I take a 68min cd and rip it on my old and new pc and compare the times

XPm 2500 @ 2.3Ghz 3:08
E6600 @ 3Ghz 5:53 :eek:

Any pointers as to where I am going wrong?

I don't think it's the processor since the 1MB superpi times are approx 35s & 19s respectively, and I notice that in task manager cpu usage on the E6600 barely gets up to 20%

The mobile barton is hooked up to a very old lite-on cdrw 16x10x40 and an IDE drive, while the conroe uses a sumsung lightscribe SATA dvdrw and SATA hardrive

Any advice gratefully received.....
 
Pipe & Slippers said:
I start ripping some cds last night with wmp on the system per my sig and I'm thinking this is a bit slow

So I take a 68min cd and rip it on my old and new pc and compare the times

XPm 2500 @ 2.3Ghz 3:08
E6600 @ 3Ghz 5:53 :eek:

Any pointers as to where I am going wrong?

I don't think it's the processor since the 1MB superpi times are approx 35s & 19s respectively, and I notice that in task manager cpu usage on the E6600 barely gets up to 20%

The mobile barton is hooked up to a very old lite-on cdrw 16x10x40 and an IDE drive, while the conroe uses a sumsung lightscribe SATA dvdrw and SATA hardrive

Any advice gratefully received.....
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is your newer drive slower at burning cds than your old drive?
 
i dont think its your cpu at all.

what happens if you rip straight to wav - ie: no encoding? a 48x cd reader should do a full cd (ie 700mb) in under two minutes and since you mentioned the low cpu usage when ripping, i think its something else. sata drivers or maybe something with WMP.



you should be using EAC anyway;)
 
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Thanks - can you recommend any benching programs so I can see how the read time on the optical drives and write time on the hard drives compares so I can determine if it's hardware related?
 
Nero cd -dvd speed gives me this:

Serial Number SH-S183LFirmware
Drive TSSTcorpCD/DVDW SH-S183L
Firmware SB01
Transfer Rate - Average 30.16x
Transfer Rate - Start 17.85x
Transfer Rate - End 39.67x

Does that look ok...in my naivety I thought it should have reached 48x at some point?
Nero also says that the cd read speed is a max of 40x and write speed a max of 48x - does that sound right since in the OcUK description is says 48x for both?
 
im not sure on that, but even the fact that it was reading at close to 40x its proof enough that it isnt the drive that's the problem:)

try something else instead, i really would recommend EAC. Bledd. (a member here) has an installer for EAC that'll configure it all for you. just click and go, basically. im sure he wont mind me posting a link:

http://bleddyn.co.uk/creations/EAC.exe
 
Sorry to resurrect such an old thread but for anybody that's interested, I've found the reason for this slow ripping - the optical drive Samsung SH-S183L is apparently 'rip-locked' so it'll only read @ 6x!!! What's worse is that this doesn't show up when running a read test in Nero

Taken from here:

http://http//www.extrememhz.com/shs183L-p11.shtml

It's ironic really that I'm currently ripping my dad's quite extensive classical cd collection for him, and it's running so slow I've had plenty of time to reserach the answer

I can confirm that transferring my ide drive from my other pc solves the problem entirely

Apologies if this is old news, but I'm a frequent lurker around these forums and it's the first I've heard
 
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