[ZMan9854]

Hello,

I've been searching for the answer to this question for months, and have been totally unsuccesful. I rip CDs for a living, outsourced from another company that offers this service, so it would add to my lounge time (priceless : >) for me to speed up my rippings.

I've got a few computers, and a couple dual G5s. My G5s can convert AIFF to Mp3 steadily above 40x in iTunes. From CDs in 52x drives, they begin ripping at about 15x all the way up to around 40x. It is evident that the bottleneck is the CD drive (I've already established this a while back).

After searching for a program that supports dual CD ripping, I gave up and went onto my next idea - finding a faster drive.

I looked around for drives that could read faster than 52x drives, and they don't exist (because of exploding CDs : >) other than the Kenwood TrueX 72x drive with multiple lasers that was discontinued years ago. With these, I could cut my rip time in half on my G5s because the drives could supply enough data across the whole CD to rip at 40x the whole time (wow!). I'm still working on getting one to test out, but they are very scarce, and one pops up on a eBay maybe once a month. So, this option has little outlook.

Now I'm searching for a dual-ripping solution again. I hear people do it on fast PCs, but I can't find anything on Mac. I saw a post a few days ago from somebody on these forums, l008com, saying this:

"Another real beef I have is the way that you can't import from two CDs at once. You used to be able to do it only with the MP3 encoder, and only if you manually clicked import, you couldn't set iTunes to automatically rip from two at once when you inserted them (it would automatically queue them). So I submit tons of bug reports to apple saying that they should make iTunes able to rip two at once, since faster machines have the power to do it. And what happens? This new version of iTunes, 4.9, blocks dual ripping all together, so now there is no way to rip two discs at once, not even using MP3."

I tried using iTunes 4.8 and 4.7 and can't get the them to dual-rip by clicking import manually. I tunred off auto-rip as l008com said, but the import button is still greyed out.

Does anyone have a solution? I tried running iTunes on two users and that works, but then the other user will begin to rip the other CD that the first user is ripping, and it messes everything up. Also, I tried using Audion and iTunes, but the same happens, and Audion is slower anyway.

Thank you!
-R

[Targon]

Hardware : for each cdr drive make sure u have a dedicated Hard disk to rip to.

Software : Select the Toast Application if you have this (i imagine you should be able to do the same with the app you are using), Option drag it to make a duplicate. Do this for as many cdr/hdd's as u have. You may then launch multiple copies of Toast, assign a different cdr drive to each instance of the application and assign a different HDD for the saved location for each instance and rip.

This will provide you with the fastest ripping.

[ZMan9854]

Does Toast rip to Mp3? This would be a great thing, but I can't figure out how to do it. Any tips?

iTunes doesn't allow more than one copy to run at a time, unless someone knows how to surpass this?

Thanks,
-R