> I think Toast is burning at the fastest speed it can for the given > media, > which may be different from the speed you asked for; so the time > elapsed Yes, but it is the feature of a drive, not the Toast. That's why I believe Toast sometimes gets confused, and if you watch carefully the timer is 'off' > Burning still remains something of an art rather than a science and > it's > often wiser to burn at lower spedd (x8 or 16 looks like a good and > reasonnable compromise); don't be fooled by the speed; there is no use > burning at fancy speed like x48 and so on. Not to mention that lead-in and lead-out is still burned at 2x even if you burn your CD 48x.