This may relate to the improvement bug I raised in #42758 - using the SG-IO interface in the 2.6 kernels can offer massive benefits to cdparanoia in ripping speeds. It requires a patch to cdparanoia developed by Red Hat.
-- cdparanoia is slow https://launchpad.net/bugs/13823 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
