I have a 32x cdrom drive with DMA enabled and it only ripped at 1.1x. is there some way to speed it up? I was ripping to wav. The MP3 encoding is slow as well. I have a Cyrix II 266 with 32Mb ram. Tim p.s. txt based prefered LinuxAlien Riverton, Perth, WA Australian Linux Technical Conference, Perth 2003 http://linux.conf.au