Ripping Speed Varies

[theEdge78]

I have been ripping my music collection to FLAC for the past couple of weeks. i have noticed that some cd's will rip at 38x and can rip and encode a cd in less than 2.5 min Others take longer if there are scratches etc which is to be expected. However i have some cd's that are not scratched at all and rip at 8x. Does this have something to do with the CD itself or is it a setting I need to change?

[Spoon]

Re: Ripping Speed Varies

The CD, when you insert the disc the drive automatically tries to read a small section at the end of the disc, the results of this are used to set the maximum speed for the whole disc.