[mdlug] How to rip CD faster?

[Stan Green]

Michael,

It looks like cdda2wav has a ton of options. What do you normally use?

Thanks,
Stan
On Sunday 23 November 2008 19:07, Michael Corral wrote:
> 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
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