Deep Singh

Hi.

Could anybody tell me how long it takes to rip a CD using a lossless format ie FLAC.

Thanks

PeteBrant

Entirely depends on what machine you are doing it on.

Graz

As a ballpark figure on a decent spec. machine you should be looking around 5 minutes tops. Using a lossless format like FLAC should in theory take less time than MP3 as the processor has to do less work compressing the audio.

Plucking Pheasants

My laptop rips to mp3 in a shade over 5mins (T5500, 2gig, vista 32, working on mains )

stevebt

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Its probably quicker to download the album ?? I can usually download an album in under 30 seconds

bioforger

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Under 30s? that's pretty dam fast mate Unless you're getting poor quality albums at a low bitrate? Or you're on BeThere at lightning speeds?

stevebt

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20Mb thru newsgroups

vindaloo

Depends on any copy protection.... Though I dare say that there are ways and means to avoid that these days.

I tend to use EAC to rip CDs for re-burning etc. Though I prefer CDEX for CD->MP3 etc. I have FLAC, though that's on the to-do list.

Ordinary CD ripping shouldn't take more than 5 minutes on a modern machine.

J.

Deep Singh

Thanks, I have a sony vaio laptop 512Mb,80gigs, 1.73 GHz. That should be able to do it in about 5 minutes then?

steve, are you downloading lossless files or compressed?

PeteBrant

A decent spec machine will encode in about 2 mins, your machine will take some way over 5 mins - more like around 7 or 8.

mart360

What MP3 players play flac?


mine wont, so whats the point of ripping in an unuseable format?



Mart

urdad

Copy protection on CD's?
Do they have it?
I use a stand alone burner and have never yet experienced copy protection on a CD.

PeteBrant

Some Irivers do, but then it;s not just about portable players; you might want to rip FLAC or ogg to media servers and such like.

ricardo

Since FLAC is lossless and compressed it is a useful medium to rip to as the master, since then other lossy formats like MP3 can be derived from it.

I rip to FLAC, which is then used directly by streaming it to a Squeezebox, but the script also automatically creates a lower-quality MP3 version for use in the car and an MP3 player.

Deep Singh

Thanks, I'm not really interested in MP3 only lossless stored on a NAS (which I don't own yet) as I listen through good quality amp/speakers (not being a snob, its just what I like.

I have all the other kit ie amps/speakers etc but am thinking about buying a Sonos and NAS and ripping all my CDs to the latter.

There are now some machines that will rip a CD lossless, in 4 minutes and act as a NAS ie AVA RS3

https://www.ripcaster.co.uk/node/308

It seems over priced though for what it is despite the convenience. What do you guys think?

vindaloo

IMO if you're primarily going to be listening to music over a home system or a better than average system, then CD or FLAC, lossless is the way to go. MP3 tends to soften the edges and loses impact in back to back listening of the same track.

Though in MP3s defense, the system in question had a Mission/Linn amp/speaker combo.

J.

Deep Singh

Vindaloo, I couldn't agree more. I have a very good CD player, but get fed up of having to keep getting up off my chair to change a CD. Hence I want all CDs ripped and then at my fingertips with a Sonos.

What do you guys think of the Ripcaster thing I've provided a link to? Is it too expensive for what it is?

urdad

That was a serious sub-question,do cd's have protection??? Cheers..