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Lite-On LTR-48246S can only rip at 16x

PostPosted: Fri Jun 13, 2003 2:10 am
by gh3tt0
Hi all,

just got this drive last week. when tried to rip audio CDs (with MusicMatch) the maximum speed was 16x. i tried with AudioCentral (comes with the Easy CD Creator), same thing happened. i checked the DMA settings, and it's enabled. is there any other settings that i should've checked, in order to get the 48x ripping capabilities as stated in drive specs??? the drive doesn't have any problem burning...it even can reach 49x. any help would be appreciated. thanks.

PostPosted: Fri Jun 13, 2003 2:20 am
by dhc014
Are you ripping and encoding at the same time? 48x can only be achieved when ripping to a wav like with CD DAE

PostPosted: Fri Jun 13, 2003 3:30 am
by gh3tt0
i did choose 192 kbps MP3 format in the Record settings. when i chose WAV, rip speeds reach 36x maximum. never knew 'bout it :) thanx for the reply dhc014. i was wondering, is it possible to increase the speed, or is it good enough???

PostPosted: Fri Jun 13, 2003 3:37 am
by dhc014
Don't get too greedy... I remember back in the day when I could only pull of ripping at around 3x on my Pentium 200 with a 40x CD-ROM drive... 16x is a good speed. :lol:

You already checked DMA, so the only thing that could make ripping faster would be to get a faster processor so that it could encode faster...