[lug] Creating audio CDs

[David A. Merritt]

Hi.  I have a Pent. III, 700, 768 MB ram, TDK CDRW 24-10-40.  I use 
xcdroast v. 0.98alpha8, and just ripped an audio CD that has 14 
tracks (about 400 MB).  It took 3 minutes 30 seconds, and I was 
ripping at only 20x.  Something isn't quite right with your 
systems.  My cdda2wav command line looks like this while ripping:

cdda2wav -D 2,1,0 -g -O wav -S 20 -v30 -P 0 -n 75 -B 

followed by the names of each wave file, ie: 

/data/cdr/temp/track-01.wav  ...

Also, my config is the same as yours vis-a-vis overlap sampling == 0 
and sector burst == 75.

I don't see anything in your cdda2wav command that is significantly 
different from mine except that mine uses -B (bulk).  Don't know why 
xcdroast would emit that arg on one system and not another.

Your command line does explicitly select track 1 (-t 1) and it does 
specify a start index (-i 1), but I don't know why that would cause 
a problem.

Sorry that doesn't answer your question relative to getting there 
faster, just that there certainly is something wrong and you 
shouldn't accept those speeds.

-dam

On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Timothy C. Klein wrote:

> * Ronald Kumon (ronkumon at yahoo.com) wrote:
> > cdda2wav -D 2,0,0 -g -v2 -O wav -t 1 -S 48 -i 1 -P 0 -n 75 /usr/image
> > 
> > I have found that it has been taking 1.5 to 2 hours to do the conversion
> > of these 2.5 to 3.5 minute tracks.  Is this typical? I have a 48X speed
> > IDE CD-ROM writing to a SCSI Ultra 3 hard drive on a dual Pentium III 9333
> > MHz machine with 1 GB RAM (the IDE drive is running under SCSI emulation).  
> > By default, the sectors for overlap sampling is set to zero, and the
> > sectorburst is set to 75.  Is there a way to speed this up?  Is there a
> 
> So you have a 9 GHz Pentium III.  Where did you get that? :-)
> 
> That seems *very* slow to me.  I use cdparanoia, though.  With that
> tool, cdparanoia --batch rips a whole CD, generally takes somthing like
> half an hour.  This is with an Athlon 1.2 Ghz, IDE disk, old 4x/2x/4x CD
> burner.  And supposedly cdparanoia is *slower* than cdda2wav, because it
> does extra checking.  I am not sure why it would be so slow.
> 
> Tim
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