[access-uk] Re: Sound Taxi conversion speed
- From: "Ibrahim Gucukoglu" <ibrahim_gucukoglu@xxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:14:26 -0000
Hi Andy.
No, I don't use audible as I don't want to fork out for each book I'd buy. I
know they have subscriptions, but you only get two books in their listener
premium plan which just wouldn't be sufficient to satisfy my veracious apatite
for reading. Sound Taxi uses windows media player to do the conversion, it
just gets the audio from the player and exports it to the file of your choice.
I don't understand it either to be honest, but when I use it with napster it
work's absolutely fine.
All the best, Ibrahim
----- Original Message -----
From: ANDY COLLINS
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 5:23 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Sound Taxi conversion speed
Hi Ibrahim -
Well, this is interesting, I've just converted a 320 bit music file,
approximately one hour long to 64 bit in Sound Taxi, and it took about 3
minutes, on that basis, my book should take about 20 minutes, at this stage,
I'd be happy with that, so, I wonder what it is about the Audible format that
makes Sound Taxi take so much longer in convertion?
Don't suppose you have an Audible title [format 4] that you'd be prepared to
start a convertion on just to see if you get better results? -
Andy
----- Original Message -----
From: Ibrahim Gucukoglu
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 5:02 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Sound Taxi conversion speed
Hi.
I only think that check box is for video, but you could try it anyway.
Other than that, I'm afraid I don't know.
----- Original Message -----
From: ANDY COLLINS
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 5:00 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Sound Taxi conversion speed
Hi Ibrahim -
Yes, the trouble shooting bar is at 0 percent, and I've chosen a low bit
rate of 64, so that should have speeded up the process even more, but no such
luck. There is a setting that I don't understand, called "avoid Vista RnR
window" which is unchecked by default, there doesn't seem to be anything to say
waht this is about, and I am using a Vista machine. Any more thoughts? -
Andy
----- Original Message -----
From: Ibrahim Gucukoglu
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 4:27 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Sound Taxi conversion speed
Hi Andy.
This sounds odd. Have you checked that the troubleshooting slide bar
in the options is set all the way over to 0? Find the said control and tap
left a few times to make sure it is, otherwise performance will be slow as
troubleshooting mode is designed to slow down conversions for difficult files.
----- Original Message -----
From: ANDY COLLINS
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 4:01 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Sound Taxi conversion speed
Hi Ibrahim -
Not sure how to test what percentage of efficiency sound taxi is
working to, but even if my system is below optimum efficiency, an approximate
conversion rate of 10 percent per hour of a 7 hour audio book can't be right,
this makes the conversion time greater than the running time! -
Andy
----- Original Message -----
From: Ibrahim Gucukoglu
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 3:03 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Sound Taxi conversion speed
Hi Andy.
Conversion will only work at maximum performance if your system
meets or exceeds the performance rating of sound taxi. This is a calculation
of available necessary resources such as CPU usage, hard disk speed etc. A
rating of efficiency is calculated to be a percentage, so see at what
percentage of efficiency sound taxi is working to.
Hope this helps.
----- Original Message -----
From: ANDY COLLINS
To: Access-UK
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 11:44 AM
Subject: [access-uk] Sound Taxi conversion speed
Hi all -
I've just bought the pro version of this programme, where it says
it converts at 50 times the playback rate, this means to me, that a 7 hour
Audible file should take less than 10 minutes to convert to MP3. I've got the
conversion bitg rate set to 64 KBPS; so far, it has taken 45 minutes to convert
4 percent of the Audible file! Obviously, this isn't what I was hoping for,
does anybody know why this conversion is so slow? This is on my Vista laptop.
Thanks -
Andy
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