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

[Robin Laing]

Marland V. Pittman wrote:
> Todd Zullinger wrote:
>> Marland V. Pittman wrote:
>>  
>>> Craig White wrote:
>>>    

> 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.

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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Robin Laing