Hello all,

1) I had problems with my trash icon(*), so I went googling for a solution. I didn't find anything satisfying, but mostly I didn't find where the KIO configuration was documented... not that I want to stick my fat fingers in there, but I'm a curious guy, so where is it documented?

2) During my investigations for 1) I found a tempting kio-sysinfo package, but it seems to have stopped at version 1.8.2 and its .DEB doesn't work on my Kubuntu. Has it morphed into something else and is it available elsewhere?

3) I used the audiocd:/ to rip a bunch of CDs. It works quite well(**) but it's damn slow (about 15 minutes to rip a CD on my Core I5@2.4Gz, even after increasing the MP3 encoder priority (cursor on the left). The more frustrating aspect is that during these 15 minutes the System Load Viewer showed four basically idle cores. I would have expected this action to peg at least two processors. Is there anything I can change somewhere?

Thanks for any newbie support.

Bertrand


(*) said "Malformed URL", (it actually self-fixed when I re-associated directories to Dolphin in the file association).

(**) although I'm not convinced that it's the best possible human factors, in particular since you have to re-enter the artist and album name to create a storage directory

The ripping of the Audio CD is likely limited by the speed of the CD drive itself, rather than the CPU. The amount of time taken indicates a speed of 800kb/s for a normal CD ( with 700mb of data ) which indicates a read speed of about 4x.

bcooksley wrote:The ripping of the Audio CD is likely limited by the speed of the CD drive itself, rather than the CPU. The amount of time taken indicates a speed of 800kb/s for a normal CD ( with 700mb of data ) which indicates a read speed of about 4x.

Hmmm. Copying the CDA takes about the same time. So you may be right. Hmm again.. copying plain data shows a 15x data rate. Thanks for the eye opener.