Cleaner 6 vs. iTunes

[mindbend]

I have been using Cleaner to process AIFs into MP3s, but after being frustrated with how slow it is, I went ahead and used iTunes instead for a batch.

I am here to tell you that iTunes absolutely crushes Cleaner in speed. And as far as I can tell, the quality is just as good and the file sizes are identical.

details:
5 source AIFs, each one minute in length.
Cleaner took 2:45 to process at 160 kb
iTunes took :35 to process at 160 kb

What is up with this? Discreet claims dual processor support in Cleaner 6 (used for this test), but I sure didn't see it. Any thoughts?

Machine is DP 1 gig (original model), 1 gig ram

 

[twister]

I thought cleaner was for video. I've never thought of it as an audio app.

On the bright side it did wonders for some video of mine.

 

[mindbend]

Cleaner is a multi-purpose media processor, including video, audio and even still images.

It does great quality processing, but it's always been slow. As for video, Apple's built-in MP4 encoding crushes Cleaner in speed, but is not as controllable.

 

[jove]

Supporting multiple processors is easy. Writing code for the vector processing unit requires more work. Could Cleaner not be optimized for the Altivec?