It shouldn't take anywhere near as long to rip it as to play it. When I rip a CD, and play it at the same time, it's usually only on about the fourth song when the indication comes up that's it's been successfully imported into iTunes. On 12/29/03 1:55 PM, "Mark Kippert" <maclists at kippert.com> wrote: > So I'm just wondering how long it should take to rip a typical music CD into > iTunes (using default settings).