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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 !