cdparanoia is SLOOOOW

[highspl]

i'm trying to run cdparanoia, and if just ain't happening. to rip 1 minute of music will take around 20 or 30 minutes. i'm using grip as a frontend, then ripperX, then just at the command line. same results. so...anyone else have this problem?

i also tried doing a run disabling all error correction and anything else extra it may be doing, and it still doesn't matter.

i'm running redhat 7.3. the processor is a 1.8 amd, so that shouldn't be the problem.....

[scott_R]

My config isn't like yours, but it still uses cdparanoia. My system is a debian/testing system, and I'm using cdtoaster to burn. In 20 minutes, I can copy a cd to drive in .wav format, another 3 minutes or so, I can write that info to a fresh disk. In other words, something isn't quite right with your system. Wish I could help more.

[sharth]

might be a long time to encode it... I dunno.

[hlrguy]

Something is definatley wrong. It took about 30 seconds in Redhat 7.0 on a 433. cdparanioa rips in about 8 seconds on my 40X 2.5 gig.

In grip, Config-->Rip-->Options see what your 'Nice' Value is. If it is 19, then it has a lower priority than everything. It should be between -20 to 19. (-20 beging the higest priority). Give -20 a try.

Also, cdda2wav should be installed, you can give that ripper a try.

hlrguy

[highspl]

the nice value was at 0, so i don't think that's the problem. it does the same thing with the cdda2wav, so maybe it's my cdrom. i don't know. i'll just search some more, i s'pose.

[JohnT]

Give this tweak a run for its money.

http://linuxnewbie.org/nhf/Hardware/Hard_Drive_Speed_Tweak_for_Linux.html

[KeeperChris]

Is this happening with every CD you try to rip?

The reason I'm asking is that about a month ago, I went through a major ripping session, converting my favorite tunes to .ogg. I noticed then that with about a dozen CDs ( out of 100+) cdparanioa would slow down to a crawl, and I really mean a crawl - a 2 minute song taking over 30 min. just to rip. I chalked that one down to a possibly flaky CD, since the majority of my discs ripped flawlessly. On a few songs cdparanoia wouldn't go at all, and I had to use CDDA2wav.

Just my .02 cents CDN... :D

By the way, my daughter, who is a musician, says that a slow rip will give a better quality .wav ( But not so slow as to take over an hour, of course! )

[sharth]

but then we ruin the higher quality wav file by converting it to a compresed format such as ogg or mp3.