Subject: Re: MP3 rippng too slow
From: Michael J Flaherty (mikeflaherty@mn.rr.com)
Date: Mon Mar 11 2002 - 13:21:08 MST
on 3/11/02 1:43 PM, johnathan spectre at jspectre@lords.com wrote:
> there may be faster, but are you sure it's better? speed isn't everything when
> ripping. by the way, you should distinguish between ripping (extracting audio
> tracks from the cd) and encoding (converting the audio file to
> mp3/ogg/whatever).
>
> personally (and i don't know about the speed, i don't care about how fast it
> takes me to rip & encode, i care about quality) i have been using lame (with
> --r3mix preset) to encode and cdparanoia to rip (because it's damn good at
> it). i tie it all together with the script "abcde". what's nice is you can run
> multiple instances, have it start ripping and encoding a cd, when it's done
> ripping (but still encoding) it will eject and you can start ripping the next
> one. i rip a few cd's in an evening and let them encode the rest of the
> night.. should also mention abcde will lookup track info from cddb/freedb and
> write out id1/2 tags.
>
> itunes is easy yeah, but i don't think it's very good as far as quality goes.
> you can check out <http://www.r3mix.net/> for some very good reading about mp3
> quality.
>
> -js
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