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Okay so today i decided to rip a music cd and play it and the same time as ripping. It was stuttering like hell, its no major biggie but since it does have 3 cores why does this happen i thought more cores meant more multi tasking, from what i have heard in the past i know the 1 core is for audio, 1 for vidio and 1 for whatever. Could this be the reason?

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Okay so today i decided to rip a music cd and play it and the same time as ripping. It was stuttering like hell, its no major biggie but since it does have 3 cores why does this happen i thought more cores meant more multi tasking, from what i have heard in the past i know the 1 core is for audio, 1 for vidio and 1 for whatever. Could this be the reason?

If you was playing it as the same time then the laser would have to be at two places at once thus why it is stuttering. Unless of course the drive had two lasers which it doesnt.

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How can you play a cd and rip it at the same time on a computer then?

My computer stutters when playing a CD (from the CD) and ripping it at the same time. It's why I always play the songs I've already ripped (and not the songs on the CD).

This has nothing to do with cores. The Xbox 360 can easily handle playing and ripping at the same time. It's just all about the CD drive not being able to do that well (and no optical drive can).

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My computer stutters when playing a CD (from the CD) and ripping it at the same time. It's why I always play the songs I've already ripped (and not the songs on the CD).

Mine doesn't :p Never has. Even my old iBook G3 500 didn't stutter.

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Your PC's / Mac's are playing whats already been ripped - The way you are doing this in the 360 is asking the drive to do both. Fire up music you have already ripped, and then rip a cd, u wont have a problem.

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Your PC's / Mac's are playing whats already been ripped - The way you are doing this in the 360 is asking the drive to do both. Fire up music you have already ripped, and then rip a cd, u wont have a problem.

No. If I play music from a CD (straight from CD, not ripped) and start ripping from the same CD at the same time as playing the different track (directly) it works fine.

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No. If I play music from a CD (straight from CD, not ripped) and start ripping from the same CD at the same time as playing the different track (directly) it works fine.

ive done that before too..

Not sure if it might be the same because the 360 is more of a games console than a "PC", heh.

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No. If I play music from a CD (straight from CD, not ripped) and start ripping from the same CD at the same time as playing the different track (directly) it works fine.

Thats because the computer is playing what's already been ripped onto the HDD.

The topic starter is making the 360 rip the CD and play the CD at the same time, it won't play anything from the HDD until it's completely done ripping.

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Mine doesn't :p Never has. Even my old iBook G3 500 didn't stutter.

Yes, Pc's can do that, I dont know what people are talking about, I can open WMP and rip a song wile the song I'm ripping is half way through.

Could it not simply be because the song has been loaded into the memory? and the 360 hasn't be designed to do it that way?

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Thats because the computer is playing what's already been ripped onto the HDD.

The topic starter is making the 360 rip the CD and play the CD at the same time, it won't play anything from the HDD until it's completely done ripping.

and if the track he's playing hasn't been ripped? hmm?

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i was playing music from my ipod but ripping from CD

and my PC does stutter when i rip CDs and listen to music at the same time. However ma mates core 2 duo doesnt ... which is why i posted this topic as the xbox360 cpu is multicore it shudnt stutter like that shud it? i get the point that it could be the optical drive, im not dissin the 360 lol i love it, just nit pickin really. I can play games and listen to music fine, just not rip and play.

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Honestly I would just stream the music from your PC. That's what I do (since my PC is on most of the time). Ripping would just take far too long, and as it's been previously said, the ripping software within the 360 dashboard is not that good. I would definitely say that's a media aspect that the PS3 is better with (but as I said.. Sharing from your computer is far better then ripping, and the PS3 can't do that).

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Honestly I would just stream the music from your PC. That's what I do (since my PC is on most of the time). Ripping would just take far too long, and as it's been previously said, the ripping software within the 360 dashboard is not that good. I would definitely say that's a media aspect that the PS3 is better with (but as I said.. Sharing from your computer is far better then ripping, and the PS3 can't do that).

Yep that is what I do. I have my computer in my home office and its two rooms apart but it works perfect just by streaming. That way I have more space on my 360 HD for movies :)

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