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Originally posted by Gattigap
Question from an iPod late adopter:
iTunes is giving me problems when I try to load music from existing CDs. Each time I try to do so, two things happen:
* Speed starts out pretty high (10.something x) but quickly drops down to 3x or 2x or so.
* It loads the first few songs fine, but any larger task (loading an album, or 10-20 songs, etc.), the entire computer crashes, and I've got to reboot.
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"Loading" music from "existing" CDs is called ripping.
It's ordinary for CDs to rip at widely varied speeds, for a number of reasons, including the fact that the transfer rate increases with the data radius --- the disc is spinning "faster" in relation to the read-head at the outer edge and "slower" at the spindle when the disc is spinning at a constant RPM. Different songs on the same disc will therefore rip at substantially different speeds, assuming a constant angular velocity.
Ripping to AAC or MP3 is a down-conversion, which is a fairly processor-intensive thing to ask the computer to do. You may be asking too much of your CD drivers and processor. Are you running a Mac or a PC? How old? Are you trying to run other programs in the background?
