music toubles mp3 - need advice please

[sammibro]

hi just kicked my sister off for a sec,

got the first gen Ipod with music match software, the problem is recently its taking all day to convert a cd to mp3 where it used to take a couple of minutes. i have no idea why it is taking so long, its a decent spec laptop and i have over 20g left on the hard drive.

can anyone help please

cheers

mark

 

[Seicent0]

have you got itunes, i think thats better then music match. heres the link mate http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ hope this helps

 

[dave]

a defrag may help

 

[arc]

what are you using to convert the cd to mp3? Dont bother with the ipod software.

i recomend using EAC to rip the CD to the computer, http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/

that'll make rather large files, so then u compress them using razorlame, http://www.dors.de/razorlame/download.php

if its suddenly started going slowly, you might have a problem with ur ASPI layer, this program will tell u if you have
http://radified.com/Files/aspichk_4712.exe

if there is a problem, look on here and you should be ok: http://aspi.radified.com/

hope this helps

 

[Neofolis]

Depending on the software you are using audio conversion can use a fair amount of CPU, it shouldn't be a problem on most modern hardware, but if you have a lot of other programs running, even background applications, it will take longer.

Either way, even with a relatively old piece of kit you should be able to convert audio in real time, so an average CD would take about 45 minutes to convert and burning time would obviously depend on the speed of your CD/DVD writer. Modern P4's over 2Gigs should be able to convert a CD in a few minutes.

 

[Liam]

Try this little program which I've used for yonks.

http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/downloads.php

Liam