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    Problem ripping CD's on 6831-FX

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by worthymatt, Apr 2, 2008.

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    worthymatt Notebook Enthusiast

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    Finally getting around to ripping a few more discs onto my drive tonight and noticed that the ripping speed just bottoms out after about the 12th track (takes about 10 minutes to rip each track after that). Using WMP... maybe I'll just try something else.
     
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    worthymatt Notebook Enthusiast

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    Trying the Cyberlink Power2Go software now that came bundled with the machine. At track 7 the speed dropped to about 50%. Now track 13, speed dropped about another 50% from there. Track 18 now and the speed has picked back up. Track 20 full speed (oh, but now I've exceeded my 20 song encoding evaluation and they want me to upgrade... that's lame). Hmmm, what gives with the drive though?
     
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    hydra Breaks Laptops

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    Power2Go turned out to be really lame. No problem. If you have no aversion to iTunes then it works great for the price. You can rip to several formats, not just AAC. Media Monkey is another nice free program. For ISO and VIDEO_TS files, the ultimate is Imgburn by UK Lightning, donate if you use it.

    I think the question is what's wrong with your media, it's amazing how bad some CD's are "pressed".
     
    hydra, Apr 3, 2008
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