Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Faster CD Ripping?

One of the points we make to potential clients is that we save you time. Who wants to spend their precious private time stuffing CDs into a PC?

Of course, we want to save time too. We are always looking for faster CD ripping, as you would be if you were ripping your own collection. Maybe when looking at iTunes CD ripping settings you will have seen the term mentioning High Efficiency encoding. Maybe you thought (or hoped) that this would be an even faster way of ripping your music.

Sorry, it’s not. This setting relates to spoken word material. You can happily rip this at 48Kbps and get a good result. Compared to music there’s just not that level of variation in speech. If you take this route, and save a lot of disc space along the way, HE encoding will give you an even better result. Just don’t think it will work wonders on Bach or Blur.

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