[OT] why cd ripping on Linux is so slow
Patrick Useldinger
pu.news.001 at gmail.com
Sat Aug 12 11:36:03 EDT 2006
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
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