Media time

Today I wanted to rip a CD to listen to it on my computer but found out Amarok was'nt equipped with that feature. After a bit of research I identified "Sound Juicer" at the app most likely the best to accomplish this task. After installign it ans reading an article I had to install "Restricted Formats" to be able to playback DVD and rip to MP3.

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

After some sweet Greek food I installed my gigabit switch to give a bit of kick to transfers from and to my NAS. It never has been an issue for playback on my media center but since I often copy files over a gigabit over there; I wanted to increase performance. Passign from 100Mbs to 1,000Mbs; I'm expecting in the best case scenario to decrease transfer times by 10! Wishful thinking but realisticly should be around 8x to 9x faster.

So I tested with my 100mbs switch with a 4.4 Gb file:
real 10m22.658s
user 0m0.172s
sys 0m30.766s

And same file with the gigabit switch
real 6m42.215s
user 0m0.124s
sys 0m32.230s

Lets juste say a meager 40% improvement is very disappointing. I'll look it up tomorrow to see what's up.