Re: Ripping CDs

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So there's another setting which can mess up the transfer - it's
related to how the hardware on the computer's motherboard "talks" to
the CD drive.

If you go to My Computer, right click that. Choose Properties, then
Hardware, then Device Manager.

Now you want to find the section "IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers". That's
the part that runs the cable to the CD drive.

Look at Primary and Secondary IDE channel, and open the popup - then
go to the Advanced section. Both of those (ideally) will show a
"Current transfer Mode" of Ultra DMA mode.

There's a drop-down box to adjust that if necessary, the problem
setting will be if the drive is set to "PIO mode", which is much
slower than UDMA settings.

Cheers - Neil



On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 14:11:02 -0700, Andrea
<Andrea@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Neil,
Thank you for your reply. I did the things that you recommended earlier and
it is still slow. I can't figure out why after a few day it suddenly decided
slow down. I didn't mess with the settings until today. Any other ideas?

"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" wrote:

On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 13:01:02 -0700, Andrea
<Andrea@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I just bought a brand new computer. The only thing I added to my computer is
CDs. Up until about 2 hours ago, each CD was ripping in about 4 minutes.
The sound quality was good. Now, it is taking about 10-15 minutes a CD and
when the CD begins to play it sounds distorted. I played something that was
already ripped and it sounded fine, but when ripping, everything (including
e-mail notifications) sound strange. Any ideas? Thank you.

When you go to WMP menu Tools -> Options -> Devices, and click on the
CD drive then select Properties : If the playback or rip setting on
"Analog" ? Switch it to Digital, and try turning off Use Error
Correction.

Analog rips are real-time, and probably you'd notice that - but error
correction can sometimes increase the time needed to read dirty
segments of a CD (or if the player has a grubby laser)

Cheers - Neil
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