[ltp] cd drive speed

[Matt Graham]

On Thursday 06 January 2005 16:55, after a long battle with technology, 
Joachim Breitner wrote:
> recently, I did some audio ripping with cdparanoia (using the
> excellent "jack" frontend). The audio ripping speed was not really
> great (around 3x), and I found no option to cdparanoia to speed it
> up. Do you have the same results, or do you know a work around?
>
> I use a T41p with the regular CD/CD-RW drive.

cdparanoia is built for quality, not speed.  Use -Z to disable 
cdparanoia's paranoiac error-checking, and it'll go faster.  The 
resulting .wav files may be of lower quality, though.  ISTR hearing 
something about "cdparanoia doesn't use DMA on drives that support it 
under kernel 2.4", but that may be inaccurate.  I never researched that 
because I ripped my CD collection years ago.  HTH anyway,

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