I am so sorry to ask this question here and I realize that this forum is not directed towards iTunes. I tried their forum but the folks on there never reply. I am hoping that someone might be able to help me as this forum is tops! My wife is noticing latency when she burns CD's in iTunes. Prior to upgrading to version 8, she burned CD's within minutes. She burned a CD last night of 14 songs and it took 15 minutes. The last thing I installed on her PC is Bit Defender and they too have not replied to my e-mail asking if it conflicts with iTunes or can cause the latency. Has anyone noticed latency with iTunes? Does anyone know if Bit Defender might be the root cause and if there are settings that I need to adjust? Thanks, Veets

Veets, dunno about Itunes, never used it, but an idea. Look (using 'search') at the size of a file called 'index.dat'. It's like a log file and keeps a record of every site you visit on the web. Empty, it's 32K, but it can grow HUGE. It's a protected file and can't be deleted by normal methods. CCleaner (free @: http://www.ccleaner.com/) can get rid of it (not to worry, it gets rebuilt EMPTY on the next boot.). Not sure that's it, but... When it gets too bloated, things REALLY slow down. HTH. Ed in Texas.

I too have never really used ITunes but I have a few ideas. Since you upgraded to a newer version of ITunes, could it possibly be burning your CDs now at a slower speed, and not at say 48x or whatever you were doing before? Maybe Apple screwed something up with that, the default burning speed. Also there are setting in the Device Manager under IDE ATA/ATAPI contollers, under each channel, under advanced settings, a drop down box for Transfer Mode, it should not be set to PIO only, it should be Ultra DMA Mode 5 or 3 or something similar. For some reason this can get changed by windows because of hardware errors or something and if it gets set to PIO, things will really be slow on your burners.

I've used iTunes for two years and didn't even know it was possible to burn CDs from there. I only ever used the Library Backup feature. Now that I searched Help, I see you can do that. Why not try another application like WMP and see what happens? "So won’t you give this man his wings What a shame To have to beg you to see We’re not all the same What a shame" - Shinedown

In the import cd settings make sure that error correction is NOT CHECKED.

Kevin, I checked the settings and error correction wasn't checked. I toyed around with Import using AAC Encoder (which it defaults to) and the setting (defaults to high) I set the encoder to wave but that didn't do anything and then set it back and then tried tried "higher) for the setting. Still burns slow. I will keep playing with it and see if I find the right combination. Thanks for pointing this out to me!