Horseface,
I believe the software used to rip makes a big difference in rip time and efective error handling as well.
At first I used Exact Audio copy and FLAC. IT was complicated, problematic and fairly slow. I quickly dropped it and now use Windows Media Player on the Vista laptop with the built in Pioneer drive and it has been 100% smooth sailing.
The worst problem I have is some CDs not being identified on occasion via the web based service automatically.
Also, it is a very manual and time consuming to burn my vinyl albums to CD first when needed ( I use the Denon recorder on my system for that), but I do not know anyway around that issue.
I believe the software used to rip makes a big difference in rip time and efective error handling as well.
At first I used Exact Audio copy and FLAC. IT was complicated, problematic and fairly slow. I quickly dropped it and now use Windows Media Player on the Vista laptop with the built in Pioneer drive and it has been 100% smooth sailing.
The worst problem I have is some CDs not being identified on occasion via the web based service automatically.
Also, it is a very manual and time consuming to burn my vinyl albums to CD first when needed ( I use the Denon recorder on my system for that), but I do not know anyway around that issue.