Whenever I try to rip a CD, it starts reading the track, and after about 5 seconds or so the speed goes down to 0.0X and then reads 0.1% every 12 seconds. I followed jiggafellz guide which was recommended by most people. I've also tried messing around with it using all kinds of settings, once it was actually able to rip but for some reason it screwed up and ended up in 56kbps instead of V0 which I had chosen. Tried the commandline from the guide (-V 0 --vbr-new --add-id3v2 --ignore-tag-errors --ta "%a" --tt "%t" --tg "%m" --tl "%g" --ty "%y" --tn "%n" %s %d) aswell as just -V 0 --vbr-new which should work.
What's funny is that I've tried everything with 4 different computers, all had different drives (it did detect the drive correctly) including about 20 different CD's. The drives I've used are AOPEN - DUW1616-ARR, NEC - DVD_RW ND-3520AW, SONY - DVD RW DW-Q28A and PIONEER - DVD-RW DVR-K13RA. I had my friends try ripping aswell trying whatever they wanted and they ended up with 0.0X speed just as me.

So I really have no clue what else to try, this just doesn't seem logical at all. Some help would be greatly appreciated.

The person responsible for the jiggafellz guide is not exactly competent.

Maybe these will help:
http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?ti...C_Drive_Options
http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=EAC_Options
http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=EAC_and_Lame

Yeah.. now it worked fluently. Thanks alot greynol!
Seems that it was either my commandline that didn't want to work, or all the ASPI layer's I tried, using the native one for the first time now resulted in a perfect rip.

Out of curiosity, are you running Daemon tools, and if so, which version of SPTD is it using?

Yes, I got DT running, it is using SPTD v1.56.

If you uninstall SPTD, does an external ASPI layer work again?

Again, this is just to satisfy a curiosity. There is nothing wrong with using the native Windows interface. If you don't feel like tinkering, I understand.

Would I have to uninstall DT entirely in order to uninstall the SPTD layer?

Also, you wouldn't happen to know what commandline to use in order to get the trackinfo into the format of tracknumber/x amount of tracks (i.e 01/06, 02/06) instead of just saying Track: 1 in the tags?
I tried with
-V 0 --vbr-new --add-id3v2 --ignore-tag-errors --ta "%a" --tt "%t" --tg "%m" --tl "%g" --ty "%y" --tn "%n/%x" %s %d
but it still ended up with Track: 1 only, whilst in FLAC, i used
-8 -A tukey(0.25) -A gauss(0.1875) -b 4096 -V -T "artist=%a" -T "title=%t" -T "album=%g" -T "date=%y" -T "tracknumber=%n" -T "genre=%m" %s --sector-align
and it gave me atleast Track: 01

For XX/YY track numbering with Lame, I'd let EAC handle the tagging and do away with that cumbersome line of parameters.
http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=EAC_and_Lame

You'll probably have to uninstall DT unless there is a way to completely keep it from running.

Why are you using --sector-align? It doesn't do anything when ripping unless you've misconfigured something in EAC that causes it to produce tracks that don't end on frame boundaries. Also, -A tukey(0.25) -A gauss(0.1875) -b 4096 is really not worth the effort. In fact, I'd recommend -6 and possibly use the -V option if you're concerned about the possibility of encoding errors, though I have a script to test the flac file against the CRC generated by EAC which is more secure.

Ok nice, got the V0 working perfectly now. Got the flac working just the way I wanted it now too with -6 compression level. Thanks alot for your help!

I didn't notice that you used -V earlier. Sorry about that.

Hm, a small problem has apparently occured with the V0, if I scan the file with MQM, encoder info says MPEG 1 Layer III LAME 3.97 but should say MPEG 1 Layer III LAME 3.97 V0: preset extreme (fast mode). :s
Edit: This only occurs if I let EAC tag for me (ticking the Add ID3 tag box). Does this really matter or should I fix it, and if that's the case, how do I do it?

I promise you that allowing EAC to tag your files is doing nothing to the quality of those files, regardless of what Mr QuestionMan is telling you.

As a guess, if you open EAC's compression options (F11) and look at the comment field of the Offset tab, what do you see?

It's completely blank. Anyhow, to be more precise, it leaves the V0: preset extreme (fast mode) out only if I tick the "Additionally write ID3 V2 tags, using a padding of x kB" which I need to tick in order to have xx/yy in the Track field. :F

There should be a specific command that you can add in the commandline that makes it xx/yy tbh. :x