Re: CD ripper/MP3 encoder

[Isaiah Weiner <iweiner@redhat.com>]

> You'd think so, but any modern CPU does just fine at mp3 encoding,
> better than realtime usually. The bottleneck is usually the CD drive,
> and my personal experience has been the consumer-grade ATAPI CD drives
> are the only ones with greater than 1x audio read speeds.  I haven't
> tried ripping audio tracks on any of my sun boxes though, YMMV.

	I definitely agree on the encoding part, even crappy first-batch
Celerons do it without a problem.  But the ability to rip, encode, and
play mp3s at the same time is great.  I haven't found a PC that can do
that -- the ripping process always eats up the I/O of the machine too
much.  Ripping at a different speed, while it uses less I/O, still uses
too much to justify the speed loss.

	Just one more reason /me *heart* sparcs

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