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[dick]

Forgive the dumb question, but I'm new to digital music: Is there any problem with running other tasks on my computer while ripping CDs? I'd like to listen to music I've already ripped (as allowed in version , scan album covers (my HP R-80 scanning software is a CPU hog), get e-mail, browse the web, etc. Will this cause any problem copying CD data to WAV or encoding it to WMA?

My guess is that the answer is "no problem", but I want to be sure before ripping hundreds of CDs. I think it's OK because "Digital CD Audio" is enabled on my CD-ROM drive. With only digital data copying and encoding going on, and no D/A conversion or CD burning going on, it seems to me that there should be no adverse timing problems should MJ have to give up the processor or wait for I/O to complete. Is that correct?

BTW, my machine is a 600 MHz PIII Dell Dimension XPS with a Hitachi GD-5000 DVD-ROM drive (at least 24x.)

Dick Green

[JimH]

Sometimes it's OK to be doing other things, sometimes it isn't.  Best to try it.

[sekim]

Dick

You look like you have a fairly healthy machine. I'm constantly doing something else with mine when ripping, and it's only a PII machine. I don't recall having any problems really. Just gets slow because of memory hurdles. Not long ago 128 mb of ram was huge. Now I think it's the bare minimum! Anyway, try a few as JimH suggested. A test run can save alot of headache pain in the long run.