two (seperate ) questions

[killingspree]

1) just for some testing purposes i wanted to copy the music files from a cd to my hard drive with winamp!
i downloaded a plugin and it works fine if you convert mp3 files into wav files... (uncompressed PCM) but when i try the exact same proceture with the files located on the CD it simply doesn't work. no errors nothing!

i'm using the following plugin: File Writer Output plugin v1.11 downloaded directly form classic.winamp.com

does anybody know a solution or a different plugin that is working?

2) i'm currently using besweet to do the ac3 to mp3 conversation and i'm just wondering if this shouldn't work a little faster! for a 105 minute ac3 file it took me 55 minutes to transcode!

system specs:
P IV 2,0
512 DDR Ram
WinXP home
Geforce 4 MX
latest drivers

thanks for your help!
steVe

EDIT: oops i'm sorry i actually wanted to post in the audio forum... so please move it...unless you believe these are noob questions anyway (: sorry

[pacohaas]

1) I don't know of a winamp plugin, but i suggest using EAC (http://www.exactaudiocopy.de) to grab your cd tracks.

2) While it might seem slow, you gotta look at all the steps that are taking place(decoding, sample rate conversion, encoding, etc) One thing that can help speed things up is not resampling, but believe me, BeSweet works very very fast, so you're not going to be able to do ac3 2 mp3 any faster without taking a hit on the quality (Audiocatalyst comes to mind as a quick mp3 encoder that plainly sucks)

[killingspree]

for your help!!

@ 2nd q: ok sounds reasonable... jsut wanted to check if that should be like that.
no real problem anyway (:

steVe

[N_F]

Regarding your second question. A two hour long ac3 track takes me 20-25 minutes IIRC using the preconfigured DSPguru_MP3@128kbps profile. Computer is Athlon 1300, 256 MB memory.

So unless you're doing a lot of things in your audio conversion or I am misremembering (is that a real word?) it seems like a very long time.

[killingspree]

i don't really do a lot of things...
i usually set it up in gknot (which uses besweet) with all the normal parameters @ 128kbit

but it took me the same time in besweet when i did the second audio seperately and it took almost the exact same amount of time... no clue why it is 'slow'

the only thing that appears to me is that it isn't using full CPU power! i'm usally doing all the conversations overnight so there's absoultely nothing else running on the computer!

regards
steVe

[N_F]

I tried it last night. 105 minutes ac3 audio took 22 minutes, specifications as above.

[killingspree]

could you please post your exact settings for besweet!

EDIT: or... where can i find the preconfigured profile?


regards
steVe

[N_F]

In BesweetGUI you should have a number of preconfigured profiles, just choose one that seems appropiate. I usually use the one called DSPguru_MP3@128kbps.

[killingspree]

i'm going to try and post the results!

steVe