Ripping CDs into Windows Media Player, at times fast, mostly slow!! Why?

Tao81

Just a quick query but not sure if I am going to make a lot of sense here, I'll try my best!

When I put a CD into Media player, with nothing else running in the background, it chunters away and will rip an average CD, with 11-12 tracks of 3-4 mins each, off in approx 10 mins, I thought this wasn't bad until I started attempting to rip loads of albums and so approx. 6 albums and hour becomes really tedious!! :mad:

However, there are one or two of my CD albums which when inserted into the computer's DVD drive, the drive makes quite a noise (sounds almost as if the drive is stuck and doing the same action over and over again) but this isn't actually the case, the CD's audio data can clearly be seen happily ripping in the rip pane (at the 10 mins per album speed!). The curious thing is, that when I click 'stop rip' the DVD drive noise stops and the ripping stops as instructed, then when I click 'start rip' the DVD drive goes into a revved up state and sounds like the noise a normal CD drives makes when it spins the disc to read it (the DVD doesn't normally make this noise, it is completely quiet whilst normally ripping CD's). The reason I have gone into so much detail is because when the DVD sounds all revved up, in the circumstances mentioned above,then the music CD is ripped off at about three times the speed !!!! HOW CAN THIS BE??? :rolleyes: ...... It would be great if I could get the media player to do this with every CD as it would cut down massively the time it's taking to rip a heavy library of CDs.

Don't have a clue why the majority of CD's take 10 mins each and the occassional few only take a matter of a few minutes and make the DVD act very differently in the process???!!!!!!

Have checked help menu and looked and various settings - but can't seem to find an answer?!!!!!!

Anyone have any idea how to get the Windows Media Player to rip at a faster speed generally??

My computer spec is:

Intel core 2 duo processor 2 Ghz speed
2G RAM
4mb cache
128 dedicated video memory
160 Gb HDD with massive amount of clear space

Thanks in advance for any suggestions offered xx

Conor_3

Complex audio takes more time to compress than simple audio so that explains most of it.