Hey all. It's been a while since I posted, but... I've been encountering problems with cdparanoia. Specifically, on the final 20,000 to 30,000 blocks of a rip data transfer slows way down or stops completely and there are almost always errors which cdparanoia cannot correct. I've just been dealing with it since I only occasionally fail to rip a track but it's getting annoying. Is this a fault of cdparanoia or my hardware. The CDROM is a four year old Toshiba 16x. My apologies if this has been discussed on the list already. I don't remember seeing anything in the archives that addressed this problem. Thanks in advance for any insight. Hans -- Hans D Umhoefer (hans.d.umhoefer at uwrf.edu)