[cmwolfson]

I've posted on this topic before but gotten no useful responses, so try again.

I'm a radio producer and routinely have to make five copies each of six 60-minute programs. The shows are AIFFs created in Peak Pro 5. It routinely takes me 12-15 minutes for EACH disc to burn. Also, my Mac -- Safari in particular -- slows to a crawl while these burns are taking place. This leaves me with a lot of time staring (and swearing) at that spinning beachball. In fact I had to stop the burnng sequence just so I could write this post.

I don't have this problem when I'm just burning a bunch of songs to CD.

I am using Toast 7.1.2, Mac G4, 1.6 Ghz dual processor, 832 Mb of RAM, NEC 48x CD/DVD burner.

[cmwolfson]

Just now tried making one-at-a-time copies, which took a little over five minutes each. That's still longer than 48x ought to take, but better than 15 minutes and upward. Strange.

[tsantee]

I'm not experiencing this problem. I admit there were a couple times when I've had very slow burning with Toast but it hasn't been for a long time and it was an unusual event.

Audio CDs should be burned at a slow speed for reliable play back. My CD-R media won't let me burn slower than 8X, though, which I think is faster than what you're experiencing.

I'm wondering if it would make a difference if you first chose Save as Disc Image from the File menu which would create an sd2f file, and then opened that file in the audio window to burn the multiples of your audio CD.