Hi Guys,
I'm slowly trying to become independent of Windows and this problem is one of the major things preventing me from doing so. Not sure if this belongs on the hardware or software forum
I usually use CDex in Windows to rip my CDs to MP3 and I think it's an excellent program. I was quite disappointed when I installed Grip to find that it seems to be far slower. Before I get flamed, I realise that it probably isn't Grip itself that's causing the ripping process to be so slow.
When I rip a disk using CDex it takes around 4 minutes. When I rip the same disk using Grip it takes around 14 minutes
I have read through the docs on Grip and messed about with all the setting (especially the cd paranoia ones) but nothing seems to make much difference to the ripping speed. I have tried using both my DVD-ROM and DVD Writer as the source drive but that makes no difference either. I have enabled DMA mode on both drives. Is that the right thing to do?
Please help as this is the biggest problem I have that is preventing switching to Linux fully.
Thanks in advance,
Dave
AMD Athlon XP 1800+
640MB DDR
40GB SCSI HDD
40GB IDE HDD
LITE-ON 16x DVD-ROM
Pioneer 108 DVD+-RW
Win XP Pro / SuSE 9.1 Pro
KDE 3.3.0
Kernel 2.6.4-52-default