[willed]

Hi, I'm a stranger in this forum as I have an iBook 500. At full throttle, it rips a CD to MP3 in iTunes at around 3.5x, so around 20 mins. How long does it take on the latest Power Macs? Is the bottle-neck how fast it can read stuff off the CD rather than how fast it can encode to MP3?
Just curious really.

[GoGoReggieXPowars]

What bit rate? Lower (ie 128) takes longer than higher (ie 256).

On a stock G4/400, I used to get around 5 to 6x going to 192. iTunes is G4 and MP enhanced.

[duboy]

hello, i encode all my mp3's at 192Kbps, normal stereo mode, and on my DP1ghz it will rip them at around 20 - 21X. it takes a track or two to get warmed up, but it is a fast process. hope this helps

[GoGoReggieXPowars]

Thanks for the numbers, duboy, I was curious myself. The main limitations have been processors, my old 180MHz Power Computing clone encoded at just over 1x! But with a G4, it's a pretty speedy process as duboy's numbers show.

[turboSPE]

Originally posted by duboy:
hello, i encode all my mp3's at 192Kbps, normal stereo mode, and on my DP1ghz it will rip them at around 20 - 21X. it takes a track or two to get warmed up, but it is a fast process. hope this helps

I have a dual 1 GHz with super drive, and I get between 15 and 23x encoding at 256KBps, full stereo.

turboSPE

[MacGorilla]

The dualies are really good at ripping and burning because of the way the threads can be passed from processor to processor. Ahh, power...

[OpenStep]

Encoding at 192kpbs i get a good 20x solid