Continuous accurate rip w/o encoding interrupts?

[matt27]

Greetings Poweramp Gurus!
Brand new external cd drive rips up to 32x! Which led me to this consideration (please bear with): It takes a little bit for the drive to reach max rip speed but the individual songs ripped from source cd are generally just short enough that cd drive has to power down as soon as 32x is reached or even before while encoding process occurs in between each accurate rip check. So, its this mad stopping and starting for the drive--ripping continuity is constantly interrupted as each song is encoded individually, piecemeal. Why not accurate rip the entire cd first then encode songs, one after the other? In this way, cd drive is able to maintain maximum rip speed from song to song without all the powering up and down (this cant be good for the drive's machinery). I hope this is clear enough.
T'anks.

[Spoon]

Re: Continuous accurate rip w/o encoding interrupts?

This is done if burst ripping, for secure ripping it has to be done as it is now (if you have a multi cpu system the encoding will go onto 2 cpus whilst ripping is continued).

[matt27]

Re: Continuous accurate rip w/o encoding interrupts?

Seems like it might be a relatively easy thing to overcome: accurate rip entire cd continuously, place accurate rip data in temporary storage, then encode each song at the end. Save a lot of wear and tear on cd drives. If this could be accomplished I believe it would be an important technical step forward for an already great program.