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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
"Loading" music from "existing" CDs is called ripping.
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I know. Coming so late to the party with an iTunes question, though, I thought I should be more humble and not try to affect any infringer cred.
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It's ordinary for CDs to rip at widely varied speeds, for a number of reasons, including the fact that the transfer rate increases with the data radius --- the disc is spinning "faster" in relation to the read-head at the outer edge and "slower" at the spindle when the disc is spinning at a constant RPM. Different songs on the same disc will therefore rip at substantially different speeds, assuming a constant angular velocity.
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Makes sense, though I've tried as a workaround having the tracks ripped (hmm, seems safe, now) to .wma files and having them converted to AAC. The dynamic above still applies, which shouldn't occur were the CD the problem.
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Ripping to AAC or MP3 is a down-conversion, which is a fairly processor-intensive thing to ask the computer to do. You may be asking too much of your CD drivers and processor. Are you running a Mac or a PC? How old? Are you trying to run other programs in the background?
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Running a PC. It's only two year old Dell Latitude, so I wouldn't imgaine this to be a problem, but you never know. I've tried this both with, and without, programs in the background.
