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    Ripping music in itunes (CD drive issue?)

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by Moodybloo, Sep 19, 2008.

  1. Moodybloo

    Moodybloo Notebook Enthusiast

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    Heya, I just bought a Gateway 6864fx and am ripping cd's into itunes. I am just curious if anyone else is doing this with a similar computer and how fast your's goes. Im maxing out at 3.0x. My roommate has a laptop with a 1.6 dual core, 24x cdrom, and 1 gig of memory and rips at 12-14x at the same settings (192kbps variable with error correction). Any ideas?

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    Moodybloo, Sep 19, 2008
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    an7m0 Notebook Geek

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    it probably has to do with whether the actual drive supports error correction/notification in firmware and/or whether it caches audio data... if itunes rips like many of the high quality rippers then it will re-rip the same data multiple times to make sure all of it is the same (i.e. a hack to get around drive error correction/notification) and do other tricks to ensure you're not getting cached data, but the actual data it's trying to read from the disc. all of these things drastically slow down the ripping process...

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    an7m0, Sep 19, 2008
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