[OT] why cd ripping on Linux is so slow

[Patrick Useldinger]

alf wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I try to ip some music CD and later convert it into mp3 for my mp3 
> player, but can not get around one problem. ripping from Linux is 
> extremely slow  like 0.5x of CD speed.
> 
> In contrary, on M$ Windows it takes like a few minutes to have CD ripped 
> and compresses into wmf yet I do not knowhow to get pure wavs...
> 
> Hope I find someone here helping me with that ....

This is really OT, and you might be better off looking in Linux forums 
like http://www.linuxquestions.org/. That said, it's likely that your 
DMA is not switched on. Ask your question in the aforementioned forums, 
and make sure to state which distribution you are using.

-pu