Fastest Way to Import CDs

Unless you have a CD ripper program that is faster and you can live with MP3's vs. AAC files your largest impediment is likely your CD drive. I rip in about 1/2 that time with iTunes or less, so you may want to invest in a faster CD drive.

Keep in mind ripping without a program that will tag them via CDDB, you would then need to spend hours adding tags, so you need to factor that in as well.

Don't forget that the import speed is also goverened by the computer's processor, how much RAM, whether other programs are running at the same time etc.

I get an import speed on average of aroung 15x real time so for a 60 minute cd that's about 4 mins or so. Some cds are imported faster (around 20x) and some slower.

Using iTunes and getting 5 mins per cd doesn't seem excessively slow to me.

well im new to all this and a bang up to date latop etc etc etc and mines running at about 5x...... PLEASE SOMEONE GIVE ME SOME POINTERS OR HELP ME

Laptop drives are slow by nature. You could try using exact audio copy but still I do not think that you will get better speeds..

Using my laptop I have never got more than 7x with error checking on, usually 5x, up to 9x with error checking off.