478 MB Wav to MP3 ... W9x vs XP

[Kosh Naranek]

Don't know what to think of this :

I just converted a CD with 10 tracks to MP3 with a total of 478 MB wav files.


Win9x :
3 min 50s to convert 10 songs and 478 MB Wav files

WinXP :
5 min 29s to convert 10 songs and 478 MB Wav files


Arrghhhhhhh !

Both using the same Lame encoder and both encoding to 160 Kbits High Quality !

I'm going to re-install WinXP and try again to see if it remains the same !

[Wombat]

If the diff of the mp3's shows no difference, then I bet you have some extraneous services running around in there.

[Gurm]

Everybody has 'em... extraneous services, that is.

Your machine will run much faster if you turn some of that crap off.

Like the indexing service, for example...

- Gurm