Music importing into iTunes at a max of 8x.

When I import CDs into iTunes it seems to be going at a slow speed. I'm going to guess that since it's a DVDRW drive it has a CD speed of 52x. And it doesn't seem to go slowly when I'm installing games from CDs.

Is this an iTunes thing or is the DVDRW drive slow with this? I'm wondering because I've seen other complaints about the drive not creating DVDs successfully.

 

Are all CDs importing at 8x? Or just one?

Also, look at the task manager, is it using both cores?

Also, there is a setting in there somewhere for error correction. It's usually off, but it may be on in your case? It slows things down.

 

8X importing music is about right. Don't forget, you are encoding it too. And apple software is not the fastest. @count_schemula, his sig says 'Dell Inspiron E1705 ( coming soon!)' so he probably doesn't have dual core yet. And I doubt iTunes would use both cores anyway.

 

Oh, I do have the laptop now. I just forgot to change my sig.

How do I check to make sure that it is using both cores? And ig it's not, how do I change that?

I also import at 192kbps. Is that going to slow it down as well? I

 

Task Manager (use the good old three finger salute) -> Performance tab should show you the usage of both processors. Like I said tho, I doubt iTunes will multithread.

 

Apple's MP3 encoder isn't all that great, since they'd much rather you stuck with AAC instead. I recommend using something like Exact Audio Copy or CDex instead... both of these utilise the LAME MP3 encoder, which is considered by many to be one of the best MP3 encoders currently available.

With a custom build for my CPU I can get an average speed of 5.5x for VBR encoding, on an aging PIII 866MHz box... your machine should be much faster than that.