CPU Charts & Reviews - iTunes benchmark?

I have been looking through Tom's recently at the CPU charts and was a little puzzled to find that they had included an iTunes benchmark - and not just Tom's but others, Anand, Neo, Tech Rev etc.

However I can't quite figure out why as it appears to scale poorly and when I have used the encoder there seems to be no "timer feature" so I am not able to test my systems aginst each other or to see if they get the same results as what Tom's is showing on their charts.

Any suggestions as to how to enable the iTunes timer so I can compare my results? I am trying to do some overclock and want to compare how much improvement I see. iTunes ripping/encoding is a big part of my computing for my iPod

I saw it had a multiplier of sorts which holds pretty steady - should I just take the exact length of the CD I am encoding and divide by the multiplier - would that give me an accurate answer or is there a plugin or command line based script that times the actions?

Thanks!

hmmm, well i dont use itune becasue thinks it crap. (i prefer WMP, but each to out own)

but i guess use a hard to find device like a 'watch' or a 'clock' could give you a somewhat acturate description of how much 'time' it take to do a task.

lol.