[BC] Converting Scott files

[Kevin Tekel]

Willie wrote:
> CDEX is worth the computer's weight in gold-pressed latinum! With a good
> "Lite-On" brand CD/RW drive, I get rip speeds exceeding 20x on most
> machines I've set up with it! Fantastic little utility!

EAC (Exact Audio Copy) rips at up to 32X with full error correction on my
1.4 GHz Athlon running Windows ME with a 52X Lite-On CD/DVD-ROM drive.
(That's 32X in terms of the complete automated process of ripping all the
tracks from an audio CD and saving them as WAV files on my 120 GB Seagate
hard drive, as compared to 1X for a real-time audio dub.)

http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/

Actually the drive was sold as a Sony and would default to 40X unless you
held down the eject button for several seconds to switch it to 48X mode.
(Apparently at 48X or higher, severely unbalanced discs can shatter when
spun at full speed, so Sony made 40X the default.)  But the drive itself
was made by Lite-On and is physically capable of 52X, and after
downloading and installing the Lite-On firmware onto it, it now runs at
its full 52X speed, without any "eject button trick".  The boost from 48X
to 52X led to
a corresponding increase in CD-ripping speed with EAC... with no shattered
discs so far!

p.s. Of course EAC support CDDB, so I don't have to type in all the
artist/
title data for each disc... I just have to spend a few seconds double-
checking that whomever put the info into CDDB got it right!



__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Tired of spam?  Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around 
http://mail.yahoo.com