Ripping music CDs - program that is good with multiple optical drives

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Robin Laing wrote:
> Marland V. Pittman wrote:
>> Todd Zullinger wrote:
>>> Marland V. Pittman wrote:
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>>>> Craig White wrote:
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>> Yeah, I think encoding will be slower than ripping, but, I'd be glad 
>> to separate the tasks and do some huge batch encoding if it let me go 
>> through the ripping part faster. I don't know if any of the programs 
>> have a "batch encode" check box or option.
>>
>> I do have that quad Opteron box, so I'm kind of hoping to get some 
>> sort of efficiency out of it. I haven't looked at many benchmarks to 
>> see if I'll benefit, but maybe running multiple instances with some 
>> sort of processor affinity setting would be better in this case... who 
>> knows.
>>
> 
> 
> I prefer Grip and would be interested in how this goes.
> 
> I have started ripping to flac with the maximum compression (not worried 
> about time) and let it go.  Drive space is cheap, time isn't.  Once I 
> get a full drive ripped, I then make a backup on a different drive that 
> is outside the computer.
> 
> If you get it working, write a howto.

I'll second that, i am always willing to switch to a more efficient 
method and a good how-to is hard to find.

> There are some media converters available from yum that we use when we 
> want to get the songs onto our portable player.  My iRiver will play ogg 
> files.  I am looking for one that uses memory cards and will play flac 
> files.
> 


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