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Uploading CD's (Slow!)
paulus599
 

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Uploading CD's (Slow!)

When we picked our car up the salesman doing the handover mentioned that uploading a CD was a slow process. I didn't actually realise how slow until I started on a stack of 10 CD's today - it's painfull!. That first CD took around 40 mins to copy! Sad

Questions are:
Is that normal.
If the engine isn't running, does the copying process stop when the electrics time out (about 10 mins).
Is it worth the wait or should I just plug my iPod in.

I can't remember anyone else mentioning how much time this takes, so I'd appreciate knowing if this is 'normal' or not.

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16-12-2011 05:17pm
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DynamicRRV
 

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RE: Uploading CD's (Slow!)

Mine take roughly 10 miutes each and I think that is quite normal.
16-12-2011 05:18pm
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vision*R
 

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Wow even 10 minutes is awfully slow. Where on earth did they find 6x speed cd readers?

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16-12-2011 06:15pm
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griff
 

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RE: Uploading CD's (Slow!)

Bearing mind you are downloading a CD with no loss and there is GB's of data I'm not surprised. The difference between IPod and download is palpable.

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16-12-2011 06:26pm
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vision*R
 

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RE: Uploading CD's (Slow!)

Bullocks, downloading a cd with no loss should be A LOT quicker than downloading it and instantly compressing it to MP3 or whatever... (which iTunes can do in +/- 1 minute). It's just reading the exact bits and bytes that are on the cd, no need to do anything with them! By the way a cd is 0,67 GB of data, no more, no less.

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16-12-2011 11:41pm
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Straydox
 

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RE: Uploading CD's (Slow!)

(16-12-2011 11:41pm)vision*R Wrote:  Bullocks, downloading a cd with no loss should be A LOT quicker than downloading it and instantly compressing it to MP3 or whatever... (which iTunes can do in +/- 1 minute). It's just reading the exact bits and bytes that are on the cd, no need to do anything with them! By the way a cd is 0,67 GB of data, no more, no less.

It is perfectly possibly given the fastidious nature of the British hifi company that they have written data verification/error correction process into the disk ripping code. CDs are easily damaged (that's not what they said when CDs 1st appeared in the mid 80s) and even small scratches produce errors - most players just ignore the errors and move on but it is lost music data all the same.

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17-12-2011 12:45am
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vision*R
 

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RE: Uploading CD's (Slow!)

I understand Meridian will have thought of some decent error correction, but if it really spends 2 minutes ripping the cd and 38 minutes trying to predict the notes that might have been lost, then it's just ridiculous engineering and frustrating to use. I'm really looking forward to the audio quality of the system, but painfully slow ripping is sad news.

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17-12-2011 01:20am
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Straydox
 

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(17-12-2011 01:20am)vision*R Wrote:  I understand Meridian will have thought of some decent error correction, but if it really spends 2 minutes ripping the cd and 38 minutes trying to predict the notes that might have been lost, then it's just ridiculous engineering and frustrating to use. I'm really looking forward to the audio quality of the system, but painfully slow ripping is sad news.

Well its only 10 disks maximum/worst case. To be honest at my advanced age (54) I can't detect the audible difference between a 192 and a 320Kbit/s file (close to CD original quality) so probably won't bother and will stick a 120Gb SSD USB disk in with music/video files and be just as happy Very Happy

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17-12-2011 01:29am
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vision*R
 

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RE: Uploading CD's (Slow!)

True, I will use the USB port as well, but it's just a missed opportunity. I now have a 6 cd changer and I tend to switch cd's every 2 weeks. Not looking forward to spending 10x 40 minutes every two weeks - that's not far from the total amount of time I spend in my car.

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17-12-2011 12:45pm
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cjfp
 

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RE: Uploading CD's (Slow!)

Related (sort of). Based on my Pure UK Tech 380w meridian ...
I know it will play a cd of mp3 / wma tracks.
I know that it will play dvds [Non Tech ??]
We know that it will only upload 'proper' cd's [Anyone 'cracked' it yet to upload mp3/wma ?]

Has anyone created a DVD of mp3 / wma tracks and tried to play that?

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