[slinkelist] converting cd's to mp3

[Francisco Antonio de Toledo]

But one thing is sure: when you capture digital audio from a CD player you
are limited to a 1x speed, that is, a CD with 48 minutes of music will take
48 minutes to transfer to your computer hard disk. Your best option is to
put the CD in your computer drive and use a good CD ripper. For instance, I
have a hitachi DVD (it was bundled with the creative dvd encore 6x) and a
software that ripps the CDs at 12x (that means the same 48 minutes CD would
take 4 minutes to transfer) and has the ability to convert the PCM file to
MP3 on the fly. This conversion takes a lot of CPU work, so the speed is
degraded in inverse proportion to your CPU speed.

Francisco Toledo.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Holopainen" <michael@laserle.fi>
Cc: <slinkelist@nirvis.com>
Sent: Friday, August 04, 2000 8:35 AM
Subject: Re: [slinkelist] converting cd's to mp3


> there has been talk about project to make application to do just that
> but...
>
> It the basic rule of IT world :
> "those who have the skills to do it, do not have time and those who have
> time..."
>
> and then there is ones like me : who do not have time to find out find
> out if they could do it. ;)
>
> When there was talk about that project in this list, it came into
> conclusion that it should be divided to different areas for people with
> expertese in that area :
> 1. Digital Signal prosessing = capturing audio stream from soundcard.
> 2. compressing it to mp3.
> 3. interfacing with CDJ to CDDBID of currently playing CD
> 4. fileoperation to save the files in desired format (naming+path)
> 4. database operation to retrieve data of matching CDDBID
> 5. composing & writing ID3 tag to mp3 file
>
> each one of these steps would be work enough for single person...
> plus you'dd would need to co-ordinate between all those people.
>
>
> Christoph Aeschlimann wrote:
> >
> > hi all
> >
> > has anyone a solution for my little problem.
> > i just ordered a mp3 player for my car with a huge disk to store
thousands
> > of songs. i also have thousands of songs in my sony cx-350 cd-changers.
is
> > there now a easy way of getting the songs from the changers to the
computer
> > (optical cable) and convert them automatically to mp3?
> >
> > thanks for any comment
> > chris
> >
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