[Sean W. Evans]

I have 600 some cds and am curious how long it took you to RIP all those cds to your HDD. I am ripping at about a speed of 9.5x with J RIVER.

 

[ReeseG]

I think it depends more on the speed of your burner than the application used, but I may be wrong


Using iTunes as the ripping software, it took me a little over 2 months to RIP my 4000+ CD music collection to AAC 192K . I was averaging about 14x, with speeds as high as 19x from my burner. I believe iTunes supports up to 24x speeds, but I couldn't get my 54x burner to go any faster.

 

[SiliGoose]

The "autorip" feature in J.River's Media Center can really knock times down (plus, it's just convenient). Set your autorip preferences (rip directory, naming structure, file format, etc.) and Media Center will only require you to drop a new disc in between changes. No buttons to press or interruptions of any kind until you choose to cease the operation.

 

[mp3jockey]

Using Jriver Media Jukebox, on a P4 3.0 with 1GB ram, to 160GB HD, I ripped my 425 CD collection using Monkey's audio over a 1 month period, spending about 2 hours per day, including the time it took to scan in some cover art that was not available on the web. My music collection now occupies about 95GB. I DO have a backup


jock..

 

[mkozlows]

The limiting factor for me isn't drive speed, it's data entry time. For discs with good information available from the Internet, it's fast; for ones with edit-required info, it's moderately slow; for ones with no info, it's painfully slow.

 

[rjcrum]

I'm using EAC and LAME with VBR encoding. I have two CD readers, so I have two copies of EAC running ripping two CDs at a time, and EAC kicks off two encoding threads at a time. I've been working for about 3 months, maybe 2 or 3 nights a week, on my 700+- CD collection, and have just about 20 to go!!


After ripping and encoding, I import into J River to clean up the tags. Since I have mostly classical music, and I want my tags in a particular way to ease navigation on my Audiotron, I spend...or *can* spend...a lot of time fixing tags. While most of my classical CDs are found in YDDB (sp?) with EAC, I find that I don't like the way other people tag classical. Consequently, I spend about a hour "fixing up" tags for, oh say 15 CDs/150 tracks (plus or minus). Tagging CDs that are NOT in YDDB can be very time consuming, especially when it's a collected piano works CD of Shumann with almost 50 track on it!

 

[Sean W. Evans]

I am not sure if this a new feature of J RIVER 10, but I just found I can rip two cds concurrently, from both of my cd drives...this cuts down my RIPPING TIME tremendously. I use a RAID array, so the file transfer are fast also. Woohooo, fun little find. I am sure having 1 GB ram also helps, and a faster processer.


My computer use an onboard raid controller for my two 80gb hdds in RAID 0, with each cd drive occupying a master slot ide channel.


Any one else have any helpful tips to speed up the process further.

 

[epshih]

Took me about 1.5 months to rip 600 CDs. Like someone else mentioned, the real time consuming part is the data entry. Even using FreeDB, I still had to check every single entry. This is becuase even if the info wasn't just flat wrong, there was a good chance of spelling errors, improper capitalization, and crazy naming formats like.... "The Doors", "The Door's", "Door's", "Doors, The", "Doors The", "Door's, The", etc....