Ripping speed for iTunes

Is there a way to enhance the speed at which to rip songs from CDs into iTunes? It is painfully slow vs. other music services. Is there a premium version of iTunes available?

*is there a premium version of iTunes available?*
No there's not, there is only one standard iTunes program, there's no enhanced version.

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Deleting Items on Apple TV and Ripping Videos for iTunes

I have two questions that if answered would take care of the only problems that I have had with my Apple TV and they are really not problems, just questions.
First, Apple suggests that if you have a slower wireless system it is better to sync and move copies of items to the Apple TV rather than stream. No problem. I moved my audio library to my Apple TV and it works great. It also said when syncing that it would removal those items that will fill up the Apple TV disk in an order of preference. My music library took up about 1/4 the space on the disk. I do not want any of my music removed if and when the disk starts to fill. I will watch movies that I have ripped from disks or other sources through my Apple TV but as I view those, I will either selectively manage them or want to delete them from the Apple TV disk.
My first question, is how do you selectively delete items from the Apple TV disk.
My second question is that as I convert video from what ever format they are in into Apple TV compatible format (H264 or MPEG4, I can get them on my desktop or actually onto the drive that holds all of my ITunes music. But how do I get them into the iTunes movie folder so I can sync them to my Apple TV since they were not downloaded through iTunes?
Any help would be much appreciated.

My first question, is how do you selectively delete items from the Apple TV disk.By deselecting them in the iTunes > Device > Category > Item listing. Like a DotMac account or the iPod, TV sychronizes files by "mirroring" your selections in the "host" iTunes application. When you modify your settings there, the changes will, with time, be reflected on the TV device drive.
But how do I get them into the iTunes movie folder so I can sync them to my Apple TV since they were not downloaded through iTunes?Assuming you are using the default "automatic" management system for iTunes, you simply open iTunes and either use the "Add to Library" File menu option to navigate to the file you wish to add to iTunes or "drag 'n drop" the file to the opened iTunes Library list. By default, unmodified video conversions will be classified in the "Movies" category and you should find them in that category of the library once the file is either copied to the iTunes Library or the path is copied to the iTunes Library database. (I prefer keeping all my files physically in my iTunes Library which is located on a dedicated external hard drive and deleting the original files from all other locations.)

Download speed for iTunes only 26KB

Hi everbody, I try to download iTunes with 26KB download speed. Is this a temporarally issue? My cable has a bandwidth as of 50.000 Mbit/ download.
Thanks for quick help and answer.
Heiko

Your download speeds are almost entirely dependent upon your ISP. As far as I am aware, Apple does not throttle your download speeds.

Pitiful download speeds for iTunes movies

8 hours to download a 3.64 GB movie (Identify Thief) and I am on Vderizon FIOS pushing 57m speeds that was tested during the download. This is a Apple problem and if not corrected will be the death of iTunes movie downloads. What's the problem Apple!!!!

If your country permits re-downloading delete the movie and re-download it.
Downloading (using iOS or computer) past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store - http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2519

Slow ripping speed in iTunes

I get around 4x-10x when importing CD's. Is this normal

I have noticed the same thing, but attributed it to the slower DVD-ROM drive. Perhaps that was the wrong assumption, but what I really want to address it the following comment:
so maybe the
newer (Universal) version of iTunes is the problemr
rather than the MacBook - anybody else seen the issue
on other machines?
I have had crashing issues with iTunes on my MBP. I believe that it is because of the Universal version of iTunes. I have a post on this issue in the iTunes discussion (look up "iTunes freezing"). Anyone else experiencing similar problems?

Any ideas on how to speed up iTunes downloads??

I've been attempting to purchase episodes of TV shows and have noticed that the download times are often quite a bit longer than the actual shows. A 44 minute TV episode recently took nearly 2 hours to download. The problem is not due to my ISP or modem because I've had no problems quickly downloading content from Amazon on the same PC, content via my Xbox 360 or large files from services like Dropbox. I was even able to download the 3.3 GB consumer preview of Windows 8 10 minutes faster than I could download a 1.29 GB TV show from iTunes. The ONLY place I encounter slow download speeds is iTunes which tells me the problem is on their end.
I attemped to contact Apple support but their utterly useless response was that I should fill out a feedback comment with a cheery note saying "Apple takes suggestions from customers very seriously". Yeah, right. Apparently they don't read their own support forums because it turns out this is an ongoing problem. Short of switching entirely to Amazon for my TV, movie and music needs does anyone have any ideas on what can be done to improve download speeds for iTunes? Call me crazy, but I think it would be kind of cool to be able to watch a TV show the same evening I purchase it. Are there any settings that can be adjusted either in iTunes or Windows?

Do you normally leave iTunes running in the background at all times? I do and I run into the same slow downloads from time to time. When I experience this, I simply close and relaunch iTunes, then the download speeds return to normal.
It is also possible that the slowness is the result of whomever is hosting the data having a slow or bogged down Internet connection. Not entirely certain that would apply to purchases from iTunes but it certaily can with podcasts.

ITunes 9 on Leopard 10.5.8 - RIP speeds now stuck at 8x

Hi,
So I was happily importing some new cd's into my collection, all were around 30-40x on my G5 Powermac Dual 1.8
I had one cd that the last track was not reading and so I turned on error correction, then tried to rip that track again.
The track just would not rip, so i moved on.. went back and turned off error correction.
Now every-time I import my speeds are stuck at 8x and will not go back to normal!
I have shutdown itunes, restarted it.. no change
I have rebooted the machine.. no change
The error correction is not checked but now the drive is still ripping with error correction on, regardless of what the check box shows!
Anyone have this happen yet with iTunes 9?
Is there a way I can delete the preference caches for itunes to get error correction to really be off?
I did not have this issue with old ver of itunes prior to 9 release.
I am now hating life as I have about 30 cd's to rip and its like being back in the year 2000 lol
I did use roxio to do a rip and it rips at full speed, so this is isolated to iTunes 9
Thanks in advance for any help

Jim,
Thanks for the quick response!
That is what it needed, I deleted it and the redid the settings
Now ripping again @ 40x +
So just for fun, i checked the error correction box again and did a rip at 8x as expected.
Then I unchecked the error correction box, and again the problem remained.
Looks to be a bug discovery in iTunes 9, as I did this on my MacPro as well and it did the same thing.
I had to delete the plist again to resolve it.
Thanks so much!

Question for Dr. Smoke and others: speeding up iTunes

I've put up variations of this question in the iTunes section, now I thought I would see what I could find out if I posted this in a more general OS X Tiger forum...
to boil it down, my problem is that when I work in iTunes, the larger the library, the slower and more difficult it is.
is there any chance you could give some thought to the problem of speeding up iTunes? The way I see it, the program is marvelous, but it was designed more or less just for people transferring a few CDs to their hard drive and of course for buying music from the Apple Store.
It wasn't designed for what I'm doing with it, which is maintaining a mega-library of epic proportions - which is why working in it is so slow, even with a G5.
Is there anything you can think of that might speed it up - other than the obvious thing, which is to reduce the size of the library, which I actually do quite a lot!
w

that's what's so great about iTunes - and what ***** about it!
You CAN use it both to manage information about song-files, and you can also use it to play them! I couldn't do this in a database program, unless it were directly linked to a music-playing program. Even then, it couldn't creatively help with assembling playlists, both manually and automatically.
I wish Apple or some third party would develop iTunes pro or super-iTunes -
I wonder what the Library of Congress would do if it had to contend with having to put together an accessible, manipulatible digital archive of its holdings?
thanks for your input!
w
powerMac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.3) World's Biggest iTunes library (460 GB & counting)

Went looking for fun movies to download for my holidays. Found Sixteen Candles and others for £3.99, great! Went to download them this morning on wifi and ***! All movies are now £6.99 each. Total RIP OFF for old movies. Why oh why iTunes? So greedy!

Went looking for fun movies to download for my holidays. Found Sixteen Candles and others for £3.99, great! Went to download them this morning on wifi and ***! All movies are now £6.99 each. Total RIP OFF for old movies. Why oh why iTunes? Stop being so greedy and make older movies a more reasonable price. I would buy a lot more, it's just false economy in my book. Don't get me started on the difference in price with the US.
Stop being so greedy iTunes!
Anyone know how I can get cheaper movies?

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Itunes rip speed

Has anyone tested ripping a CD yet? I was wondering what kind of average and max rip speed you were seeing. I have a G4 1.42 with pioneer 107 with firmware update to unlock extra burn and read speeds and I average about 18x and I have seen about 25 once in a while. Does the Mac Pro kill this or is it limited to the speed of the DVD drive? I have a Mac pro on order and was just curious about a real world test.

I have a Mac Pro 3.0 Ghz with two superdrives. I imported a cd earlier today, and on average, I was getting 25-28x.
Hope this helps.

Slow ripping speed - can't figure out why....

When ripping at aac 128 or 160, I only get speeds up to 5x or 7x (depending if it's the beginning of the CD or the end). I cannot figure out why this is:
--The drive is rated at 24x read speed
--This happens with every CD I try
--The setting for both IDE contollers are DMA
--The processor is Core Duo at 1.83. When ripping only 50 to 70 percent of the processor is used.
--7200 rpm hard drive
--1 gig ram
--error correction is not enabled
--no other programs are running
Another problem is that while ripping, the computer becomes extremely slow - I can't even type! When I press a key it takes half a second for that letter to show up!
I have had other computers with much slower specs that ripped CDs to iTunes much quicker. What can this be??
Someone please help me, I have been trying for a while to get to the bottom of this, and I think I may be losing my mind.....
Thank you....

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Slow ripping in newest iTunes update

I just updated to iTunes 7 for my Mac,and I find that when I try to rip CDs now, the are ripping very, very slowly, such as 1.1X. They used to RIP at 7 or 8X, so it takes nearly 45 min to rip a CD. I checked and I am ripping in mp3 format at 192 mps, same as I did before. Any ideas why ripping is taking so long now? Also, is there any way to stop the ripping process once started? I don't see any options to do this. Thanks for any help!

As in previous versions of iTunes, you can stop ripping by clicking the "x" in the right hand side of the status window at the top middle of the screen - the one that shows you ripping progress on that track.
I get the same problem - ripping speeds are 1.0x or less, compared with 10.0x or better in iTunes 6. Other threads cover this too - you're not alone.

How to rip CDs into iTunes from several machines, simultaneously

I have about 300 CDs that I'm re-ripping into my library for two reasons (1) I had a hard drive failure that corrupted / lost some of the files and (2) I'm shifting from MP3 to Apple Lossless format.
Setup: MacMini is linked to entertainment center for iTunes playback but I ahve 2 other Macbooks on network. iTunes library is on an external hardrive connected to mini via firewire --accessible to macbooks via network.
Issue 1: Can I load the iTunes library from the external hard drive on each of the three machines, then have each of the three re-rip CDs simultaneously to overwrite the old files? After the CDs have been re-ripped, I'd just tell iTunes on the MacMini rebuild the library so that it knew the actual file types for the CDs imported by the macbooks.
Issue 2: I want to overwrite existing songs (1) to avoid duplicate files and (2) I've misplaced / stored a couple hundred other CD's, so I can't just erase the old library, rip from three machines, then import into the mini b/c that would be a large loss of CDs.
My plan would as follows, but I'm not certain if it will work or if it's the best way:
1. Erase the iTunes library (not the files) on all three machines for a clean start.
2. On Each machine, Preferences -> Advanced -> General: Set the iTunes music folder to the external drive where the current music files are located. Also set each computer to "Keep Music Folder Organized" and "Copy files to iTunes Music Folder..."
3. on Each machine, select File -> Add to Libary: to add all of the current music files.
4. Start simultaneously shoving my CDs into the three machines and re-importing using lossless / telling it to overwrite existing files when prompted.
5. When done re-importing the CDs, erase the macbook libraries (I don't listen to music on them), tell the mac mini to erase it's library, then re-add all the newly ripped files and the preexisting/not-overwritten files to the library to rebuild it, so that the mini becomes aware of the files that were added / rewritten by the other two machines.
While none of the three machines would be ripping the same CD or trying to overwrite the same music files at the same time, my concern is that all three machines would run into problems if trying to update / write to the same iTunes non-music file, for example the iTunes Libarary Database file of the iTunes Library.xml file on the external drive.
Comments? Suggestions? Experiences?
Thanks,
mjc

I have about 300 CDs that I'm re-ripping into my library for two reasons (1) I had a hard drive failure that corrupted / lost some of the files and (2) I'm shifting from MP3 to Apple Lossless format.
Setup: MacMini is linked to entertainment center for iTunes playback but I ahve 2 other Macbooks on network. iTunes library is on an external hardrive connected to mini via firewire --accessible to macbooks via network.
Issue 1: Can I load the iTunes library from the external hard drive on each of the three machines, then have each of the three re-rip CDs simultaneously to overwrite the old files? After the CDs have been re-ripped, I'd just tell iTunes on the MacMini rebuild the library so that it knew the actual file types for the CDs imported by the macbooks.
Well, yeah, this wold work, in 1/3 the time. If you have changed ANYTHING about a song title, album title or artist, iTunes will not see it as a duplicate.
Issue 2: I want to overwrite existing songs (1) to avoid duplicate files and (2) I've misplaced / stored a couple hundred other CD's, so I can't just erase the old library, rip from three machines, then import into the mini b/c that would be a large loss of CDs.
So, some of the MP3's won't be AAC's in the end?
My plan would as follows, but I'm not certain if it will work or if it's the best way:
1. Erase the iTunes library (not the files) on all three machines for a clean start.
Right Click/Duplicate first, just in case. OR (better method) hold the Option key while opening iTunes and choose create new library.
2. On Each machine, Preferences -> Advanced -> General: Set the iTunes music folder to the external drive where the current music files are located. Also set each computer to "Keep Music Folder Organized" and "Copy files to iTunes Music Folder..."
3. on Each machine, select File -> Add to Libary: to add all of the current music files.
4. Start simultaneously shoving my CDs into the three machines and re-importing using lossless / telling it to overwrite existing files when prompted.
If you have changed ANYTHING about a song title, album title or artist, iTunes will not see it as a duplicate.
5. When done re-importing the CDs, erase the macbook libraries (I don't listen to music on them), tell the mac mini to erase it's library, then re-add all the newly ripped files and the preexisting/not-overwritten files to the library to rebuild it, so that the mini becomes aware of the files that were added / rewritten by the other two machines.
On the three machines, hold the Option Key while opening iTunes and choose the original library, then delete the new library file you created for this adventure. Then do the same to create a new library on the MacMini. If you have created playlists, first export each playlist as a .xml file and import it when finished.
While none of the three machines would be ripping the same CD or trying to overwrite the same music files at the same time, my concern is that all three machines would run into problems if trying to update / write to the same iTunes non-music file, for example the iTunes Libarary Database file of the iTunes Library.xml file on the external drive.
They will each be creating their own unique library database, missing what the other two machines are adding to the iTunes Music Folder. They will not be re-writing the .xml file on the external hard drive. Each computer will have it's own .xml file on it's hard drive.
Tracy

On iTunes 11, how can I access home sharing if the music is from a CD? Is there any way I can download these songs if (A) I no longer have the CD, or (B) I do not want to pay $25 a year for iTunes Match?

On iTunes 11, how can I access home sharing if the music is from a CD on a different computer using Home Sharing? Is there any way I can download these songs if (A) I no longer have the CD, or (B) I do not want to pay $25 a year for iTunes Match?

Yes, you can copy songs that you ripped from a CD to your Home Sharing computer.
Turn on Home Sharing first on both computers. To do that, go to File > Home Sharing > Turn on Home Sharing. Enter your Apple ID and password.
Now go to your computer that you want to copy the songs to and connect to your Home Share. You can do that by clicking on the popover button located at the left top corner right below the play control buttons. Click on it and scroll to the bottom until you see your Home Share and select it.
Go to Music in your Home Share. Select the songs that you want to copy in your Home Share and click Import at the bottom right corner.

Update for iTunes version 11.1.4.62

Once again tried to install new update for iTunes and once again the version would not install. Had an error code of MSVCR80.dll is missing. Another error that stated there was a corrupted file. Doesn't Apple test their updates? Third time this has happened. Usually I can go back to an older version. For some reason after attempting a manual installation, no older version exists and I am wary that uninstalling and reinstalling iTunes will not erase my library. Any suggestions? Thanks.

Rip it up and start again. See Troubleshooting issues with iTunes for Windows updates.
tt2

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