GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 580565
Very poor performance when extracting audio CDs
Last modified: 2018-05-24 14:19:17 UTC
Please describe the problem: 1) Distribution: Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04 2) apt-cache policy rhythmbox: 0.12.0-0ubuntu2 3) When extracting audio CDs in other operating systems on the same computer, the conversion process takes under 5 minutes, and allows me full use of my computer as the process takes place. 4) When extracting an audio CD in rhythmbox, the process took well over 5 minutes, and took a large amount of CPU, leaving my computer very unusable. Attempts to play other music within rhythmbox while the extraction was taking place results in stuttering playback. While the extraction process is a computationally expensive operation, it should NOT leave the system in an unusable state. Steps to reproduce: 1. Start rhythmbox 2. Insert an audio CD 3. Start the extraction process 4. Attempt to play audio, or use other desktop applications Actual results: Computer is extremely unresponsive, audio stutters when played back, and desktop applications freeze intermittantly. Expected results: The computer should be completely useable. Does this happen every time? Yes. Other information: Link to bug on Launchpad: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rhythmbox/+bug/355565
Upgraded to Ubuntu 10.10 and have similar poor extract performance to Ubuntu 10.04. IOTOP shows about 20KB/s for the MP3 creation, very low CPU, no I/O Wait, the thread is clearly running as a background/nice io friendly thread, doing very little work. Rhythmbox is very very slow at extract, about 1/100 the speed of every other program I have tried to rip with.
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