On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 10:24:25AM -0500, Peter Seebach wrote:
> In message <Pine.BSF.4.30.0109011118130.10081-100000@main.burghcom.com>, "Brian
>  A. Seklecki" writes:
> >What encoder are you using?  Use bladenc, everything else, including
> >Fraunhaufer, is...well, it's commercial, so it's spoken for...
> 
> I have been experimenting with lame and bladeenc.

I can highly recommend the Linux version of the Xing encoder.  Much faster,
and better quality in VBR mode than most encoders.

> Since I wrote the original request, I discovered that I need to tell cdda2wav
> to do some jitter correction... and I am no longer noticing or worrying about
> the MP3 encoding speed, because I'm doing my old CD's, and some of them are
> *very* slow to read.  I've got one that's been doing about 150k a *minute* for
> the last hour.

You should get a drive that's better at reading audio -- I can highly
recommend the Plextor CD/RW for this purpose, in either SCSI or ATAPI mode.