rip speed

i seem to recall realjuke or realplayer or w/e "real" it was taking 3-4 mins/track back when i had win98. then being pleasantly surprised 4 or 5 years later when it only took 20-30 secs, per. (faster machine, XP)

now on a third machine, rather than install all the bloat that real has become, i tried freerip. i really like the interface, but i'm back to 3-4 mins/track! which means 40-60 mins per CD. what a pain.

my machine now (XP again) is faster than the previous one. so why is this so slow?

1) intentional throttle to get you to upgrade to freerip's "pay" version
2) nature of the beast / lousy app
3) something deeper wrong

what kind of speeds do y'all get, and is there some better app to recommend?

again, i like freerip's layout/interface. but for the speeeeeeeeeed.

 

must be a limitation in the software, because i just tried it and it was painfully slow. Windows media player does a fine job of ripping audio cd's into various formats. according to the free rip site, the 'pro' version converts up to 30% faster, and im guessing that's the case. and it took only 5 minutes for an entire cd with media player.

 

media player? i don't recall that (previous versions) even HAVING a rip feature!

well, i guess that's what i'll be using then. especially since i already have it. (unless there's some great advantage to CDex?)

freerip - R.I.P. !!

thanks

 

i haven't actually used WMP in years...sits there installed by default, but i'm really of the VLC school....

 

OK, I give up -- is there some distinction in WMP between "rip" and "rip...and save"????

It rips a track, then immediately DELETES it when it moves on to the next one. What thu...?!

For example, we see:

01 ripping
02 pending
03 pending
04 pending

and I can see #1 building up in the folder. After it reaches 100%, however, we now see:

01 pending
02 ripping
03 pending
04 pending

and there's NO TRACE of #1 whatsoever!!!! #2, however, is building up just fine.

Then on to #3....

Well, there's something else I actually like about WMP, now that I've tried it, but further discussion will have to wait until I get past this teensy-weensy little FATAL hurdle.

Any ideas?

 

check your options/preferences for the location of the file. by default it's in your user folder, under my music.
make sure it finishes. try one song to test it out.

 

No, I know exactly where the files went. But they disappeared as soon as they reached 100%.

Dunno what that was all about, but I did a reinstall, and everything's peechy-keno now. Not quite "5 mins per CD" in my case, but maybe 10-12. Still a far cry from the 45+ which Freerip was costing me.

What I really like about WMP, otoh, is that it can handle foreign languages!!!! The CDs I was loading today just HAPPEN to be in Chinese.

I asked in another thread about patches to enable Freerip or others to handle foreign languages (fonts), but here WMP handled them fine straight out of the box!!!! Folders, subfolders, filenames -- everything just PERFECT!

Man, I had just about given up HOPE on all that. Talk about "serendipity".....

Many thanks for pointing me at WMP!!

:major