I am busy ripping my collection again to APE... A not serious but annoying thing is that MC keeps asking if I want to rip because I am low on disk space ... when I am not. I am ripping on a new desktop with plenty space. Also I have 5 drives attached to help speed up the process but MC tends to stop / fail on a few drives as I go along. i.e I start with 5 drives ripping - as each drive completes, i pop the next disc in, it looks up and starts ripping automatically as set-up - fine. Problem starts about after disc 10 (overall not on a particular drive) Suddenly my production system slows down - ie drives not automatically ripping even if I tell them to rip manually. I have to wait until current ripping is done and then stop / start MC to get the system ripping 5 drives simultaneously again...mitch