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ripping an audio book

Nov 8, 2008 2:32AM PST

How long should it take to rip an audio book from a CD using windows media 11? The book has like 8 CDs. Sorry for such a dumb question but it seems like it is taking hours. Thank you to anyone who can help me with this.

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Without knowing the rip speed.
Nov 8, 2008 3:17AM PST

The longest it could take is at 1X. Since an AudioCD is 74 minutes the longest this task will take is about 8 times 80 or 640 minutes or 10 hours 40 minutes for the entire set. If your rip speed is 2X then its 320 minutes or 5 hours 20 minute and for higher speed ripping, it almost linear.
Bob

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Ripping Times!
Nov 8, 2008 6:36PM PST

With a modern CD drive (perhaps rated at 50x but usually capable of only ripping at up to 30x) an audio CD should be ripped to WAV or WMP in a few minutes. It will take longer (say twice as long) if the rip is to a compressed format like MP3 -- which is probably what you want as you are on an MP3 forum.

If the rip takes a great deal longer it suggests that the source disks are in poor shape or the the source drive is. If it's a very old drive, some were incapable of ripping above 2 or 4x -- whatever the rating.