ripping cd's and keepng cd quality...

[AllanD]

I don't need to "find" my CD's they are in file boxes on a shelf above my computer
a proper rip takes all of 3minutes with a good fast drive (I use an older NEC DVD-RW drive)

Creating the mp3's as a seeperate operation takes around 90seconds.

The real time vampire is proper tagging of the files.

I make multiple backups of everything, I have hard drives that I
physically remove from my computer.
What kills drives is running all the time.
Disconnected and protected they last for a decade or more.
Long enough that the data (and often the drive itself) becomes irrelevant.

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[Jay FX4]

I don't need to "find" my CD's they are in file boxes on a shelf above my computer

Me neither, I just said that to exaggerate my point. I keep mine alphabetically in three spinning towers like this...

but mine are larger.

And what exactly takes you 3 minutes? Seems like a long time for an individual song, but ridiculously fast for an entire disc....

 

[4x4junkie]

The real time vampire is proper tagging of the files.

That doesn't have to be...

Even semi-archaic CD ripping programs automatically connect to the freedb or CDDB databases and tag all the files for you (as well as allowing you to structure the file names how you want them). Unless you have some unusual tagging convention of your own... then I s'pose all bets are off.

And what exactly takes you 3 minutes? Seems like a long time for an individual song, but ridiculously fast for an entire disc....

A relatively new computer (up to maybe 3 years old) should be able to create a full set of fully-tagged MP3s from a CD in about 2-3 minutes using any recent version of the LAME mp3 dll (CDEX, EAC, and dbPoweramp are just a few of the numerous softwares that use LAME).
IIRC, my Athlon 64 dual-core 4200 does the whole CD in about 3 minutes.

 

[Jay FX4]

Wow, I guess I'm behind the times....

My laptop that I do my ripping on has a P4 @ 2.4 Ghz. I have never really timed it since I usually start it and walk away, but I'd guess an entire disc takes about 10 minutes....

 

[AllanD]

Me neither, I just said that to exaggerate my point. I keep mine alphabetically in three spinning towers like this...

but mine are larger.

And what exactly takes you 3 minutes? Seems like a long time for an individual song, but ridiculously fast for an entire disc....

Ripping an entire CD in new condition typically takes 3-3.5minutes.
and that's EAC in "secure mode".

And unless the disc has errors that require re-reads of parts,
never longer than 5min for a disc and that is for a disc that's a
full 79min run time.

If I want to do it in "burst mode" it's even faster.

Hey I don't have a superfast PC either a P4-2.8, running in
Win 2000Pro-SP4 but it does have 2gb of RAM
I don't have a lot of resident software that's taking up system resources
(even when the applications aren't being used)

I only have the stuff I really use.
And everything I have works well together or it wouldn't be here...

My computer is primarily set up as an audio cruncher.

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[brandonwh64]

Wow, I guess I'm behind the times....

My laptop that I do my ripping on has a P4 @ 2.4 Ghz. I have never really timed it since I usually start it and walk away, but I'd guess an entire disc takes about 10 minutes....

My Phenom II 940BE @ 4GHZ will rip a full cd in give or take a Minute tops (But thats factoring in my high speed SATA DVD Burner)

 

[AllanD]

I use EAC to rip to WAV.

My file naming convention is simple 001 track title.wav
however that automatically goes into a folder organization scheme
where it's G:\Artist\01 Album Title\001 Track Title.wav

From there I create the same string but with the .mp3 file.

So I'm organization is primarily by my folder setup not my file titles.
Long file names are an abomination

And I'll use hyphenated names with the track - artist - title
only when hell freezes (If you follow Nordic religeon when
hell THAWS, because they believe hell is already frozen)

And I want fully filled mp3's INCLUDING imbedded cover art.
(adding embedded cover art (500x500 images) took me a rainy
weekend and defragging a drive)
Being honest it takes three minutes or so using TagScanner5.1
and other than typing EACH track title (because I haven't gotten
a handle on doing it automatically) I only need to type album title, artist
Genre, release date, ONCE for the entire album

That doesn't have to be...

Even semi-archaic CD ripping programs automatically connect to the freedb or CDDB databases and tag all the files for you (as well as allowing you to structure the file names how you want them). Unless you have some unusual tagging convention of your own... then I s'pose all bets are off.





A relatively new computer (up to maybe 3 years old) should be able to create a full set of fully-tagged MP3s from a CD in about 2-3 minutes using any recent version of the LAME mp3 dll (CDEX, EAC, and dbPoweramp are just a few of the numerous softwares that use LAME).
IIRC, my Athlon 64 dual-core 4200 does the whole CD in about 3 minutes.