[Jbroad572]

It's taking maybe 20 minutes to copy 10 songs from a musical cd to my HD, is there any reason it's doing that? Is that normal?

[MaxPower2k3]

That depends. Are you just copying the files directly from the CD to the Hard Drive, or are you converting them to MP3 or ACC first? that conversion can take quite a while, depending on the speed of your computer. If you are just copying the files directly off of a Music CD, 10 songs can be as much as 600 megabytes or so, which may also take quite a while to copy, since CD drives can't read data at the speed Hard Drives do.

[JellyBeen]

Originally posted by Jbroad572:
It's taking maybe 20 minutes to copy 10 songs from a musical cd to my HD, is there any reason it's doing that? Is that normal?

Are you low on space?
These files are in the AIFF format. ~ 10 mb / minute of audio.

That could be the reason for the slow transfer.
Also, the speed of you HD is important too, your optical drive speed etc....bla bla bla..

[chris v]

Also, if you're playing song one, while copying song three, your CD drive will be copying the file slowly enough to keep the song you're playing buffered. Thaty makes for a lot of back and forth for the read head on the CD drive.

CV

[Jbroad572]

Well it's a brand new 17" PB if that helps out and no I didn't have anything else playing.