[mdlug] How to rip CD faster?

[Michael Corral]

2008-11-23, Monsieur Stan Green a ecrit:
> I starting on converting my CD collection (300+) to digital. I started with
> Grip, but it it takes almost 30 to 40 minutes to rip just one CD. I have also
> tried KAudioCreater, but it is just as slow. I know Windows Media player can
> rip the same CD in about 4 minutes. (That is even on a PC that has half the
> CPU speed.) How can I get Linux to rip at a speed closer to 4 min per CD?

I never use those GUI tools for ripping CDs.

I usually use cdda2wav (also known as icedax). It's a command-line
tool, and it's very fast - about 3 minutes to rip an entire CD on my PC.

There's also abcde, another command-line tool. On my PC, abcde normally
takes about 6 minutes to rip an entire CD and encode to Ogg Vorbis, using
CDDB to populate the tag info. This is on a 2.2GHz AMD64 3700+ box in
Fedora 7.

Michael