do you have an external CDRW drive? i rip with this, and its performance is much better. i have a que!fire firewire external cdrw, and ripping with it is much better while trying to do other things on your cube. if you have an external cdrw drive, try it. --alan On Tuesday, January 28, 2003, at 10:02 PM, Michael McPherson wrote: > (with only a few exceptions...multitasking > is poor when ripping CD's from itunes, for example).