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daneel971

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Registered: 2008-03-28

Posts: 197

cdparanoia slow ripping speed

I wrote a bash script for ripping audio cds, encoding tracks to flac, tagging and renaming them according to my tastes.
The ripping step is done with cdparanoia.
I did some test on my dual boot pc (Fedora/Arch) and with Arch the ripping is 3 times slower than with Fedora. I used the same drive and the same cd and the result are:
Fedora 8: 10min and 41sec
Arch: 29min and 32sec

Now: the cdparanoia version is absolutely the same, with the same patches applied; I have write permissions over both sg* and sr* devices;
dma is enabled on the drive; using KDE, I disabled the KDED media demon; I tried to rip as root and as a user, I tried in runlevel 5 and 3.
Same results.
So, in your opinion, what can cause such a bad performance in ripping audio cds?

EDIT: I tried even with icedax, but the results are the same.

Last edited by daneel971 (2008-05-13 18:56:47)

daneel971

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Registered: 2008-03-28

Posts: 197

Re: cdparanoia slow ripping speed

I decided to try a svn build of cdparanoia: worked like a charm - from 29 to 7 minutes for all the process!
The latest cdparanoia works fine even without the sg modules (but that wasn't the problem, anyway).