I downloaded and installed RipperX and when i rip songs and encode them to .mp3 it takes longer than in windows with audio catalyst. Im using cdParanoia to rip and Lame for encoding.
Is there a trick to speed this up?

thanks in advance

-nskl

I get good results with bladeenc, you might want to give it a try and see if it helps.

Hmm i tried usind Bladeenc for encoding and cdParanoia for ripping (all using RipperX as a GUI front end) and it takes me about 7 minutes to rip and encode 4:30 minutes song. It takes much less to do this with audio catalyst if i remember well. Can someone please tell me how long it takes them to rip a 4 minute song. Seven minutes might not look a lot but i have 30 CDs i need to rip here...

Thanks in advance

-Nskl

I can rip a 5min song in 2.5min using arson as a front ent to bladeenc. There might be something else slowing down your system, or it might just be a bit slow, what are your specs?

try disabling some of the paranoia. use -XYZ on the cdparanoia cmdline and it *should* rip about 5 times faster. Grip is a better ripping gui btw.. i think.

Adding -XYZ to cdparanoia did speed it up A LOT, now it rips a 4:30 song in about 1 min, pretty good!

However encoding with Bladeenc takes bloody 3:30 minutes for a total of 4:30 minutes to rip a 4:30 song. Thats still quite a lot when i have 500 songs to rip. Is there any nifty options i can pass to Bladeenc to speed it up (This is at 128kbits)?

I wanted to use grip but i have a hard time compiling it so i went with RipperX that compiled without problems. Im just too lazy to hunt for missing libraries
So can i further speed up the encoding process with Bladeenc?
I have a PIII box @ 450Mhz with 256 RAM
Thanks in advance!

-nskl