first of all i don't really car about the answer to my question but was beifley thinking about it, and although it will have no bearing on my actions i would still like to know the answer. what takes longer to rip in to?

does it take longer to rip into:

mp3@320kbps CBR stero
mp3@56kbps CBR stero
flack at like -6 or whatever -5 mabe
cda->wav
iso (image for audio(don't know if thats the right abrev and cant be ass*** looking))

if someone knows this can they just post it if not i'll sit next to my computer and time it (probly not).

if someone knows could they give me the order??

i'm sure you guys know i could probably look it up but that would takeages.

i'll have a look to.

so i recon it would be in this order but it's a bit of a guss longest to shortest

iso
302kbps
flac
wav
56kbps

i dont think thats right

did i metion that i love coopers?? (.au) )

logic in my own mind brings me to think that ripping from cda/cdfs > mp3@320~ would take longer than mp3@56~.
im not too sure about flac at all, i dont use it.
cda>wav will probably be quicker than mp3 all round unless you ripping directly raw>mp3 not cdfs>wav>mp3.
with the cdfs>iso i think that would be the quickest method, generally it will copy the exact data from the cdfs to usually 1 single file on your hd (nb. copy).
all different results though, what exactly do you want out of your copied music?

EiZ

It will all depend of processing power. The CD drive will rip at the same speed no matter what format the computer saves it in. If you have a recent cpu, like a 3ghz P4 or a 3000+ AMD, they will all take the exact same amount of time because the processor can encode as fast as the drive can rip. But if you have a slow processor, the wav and iso rips will go fastest because they don't require much of any work from the cpu. Next will be flac, which is very fast.

I first thought the mp3 at 56 kbps would take more time than the 320 because lame includes resampling at low bitrates like that. But I tried it and 320 was faster. The difference is very small though, about 5 percent. VBR at any setting obviously is slower than any CBR bitrate.

Fastest to slowest:
CD->wav & CD->iso (same)
Flac
Mp3 at 320 kbps
Mp3 at 56 kbps

dude, what i want out of my music is a compleatly diffrent matter i don't give a f**** (don't know the rules in here) about the time taken but sinced youe asked i would like to use a program like audiograbber, (winamp not hapenin, i love winamp, like foobar2000 but just not quite as much (close though), or EAC), i like EAC to use wack to encode an iso or flack (don't know yet) on to my HDD and a mp3 at 192kbps for a portable this would ues variables to store the file in a ARTIST NAME/ALBUM NAME/TRACKNUMBER_SONG TITLE structure but that doesn't really answer your question whhat do i want from my music? what i wan my music to do is to put me in to a mood and not to distract me with quallity issues

criky!
thats incredible,
thanks Kylith

dude you are cool! thanks soo much i beleve you and now that you say it it makes sence did you time that shit or something??

am i right in saying that your list has a typo???

I timed the mp3 using a 10 minute wav file, which was large enough to get a good look at the difference. The others I knew from experience.

Er, yes. Whoops?
Corrected now.