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CD ripping with Linux/KDE
Mandrake 10.1, Kernel 2.6.8, KDE 3.2.3
I have posted this question in other Linux forums and nobody as yet has been able to help, so here goes. I have a dual boot system with WinXP mainly to support my scanner.
If I want to rip a CD in Windows, media player asks the question if I want to listen to the music or rip the tracks. If I say rip then away the drive goes at full speed and I can rip a CD in a few minutes.
Whatever I use in Linux - k3b;Kaudiocreator and others - it rips at "playing speed" and therefore takes ages to rip a CD or even a track. I cannot find out how to get the Cd player to run at full rip speed under Linux and therefore every time I want to rip a CD to my computer I have to boot into Widows and use the media player.
This can't be right, can it ? There must be a setting somewhere that I am missing
Any help would be wonderful and would get me one more step away from Gaterland !
RE: CD ripping with Linux/KDE
That's odd, I find that kaudiocreator rips at a speed way above playing speed by default. My problem is getting it to use a reasonable level of paranoia.
make sure dma is enabled for your cdrom drive.
To check: (substitute your device)
$> hdparm -d /dev/cdroms/cdrom0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0:
using_dma = 1 (on)
To set dma on, put a 1 after the -d flag, so:
$> hdparm -d 1 /dev....
hth,
Seb
Tuesday, April 16th 2024, 5:28pm
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