burning music CD and browsing internet

firehcfirehc
Posted:
in General Discussion edited January 2014
i am burning a CD and things like mail, browsing ...etc, get very slow

i found iTunes is now using roughly 55% of CPU,

is this normal? 'cause i heard many of u doing these very often and have no problem.



I have imac FP and 512 M

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 3
    buonrottobuonrotto Posts: 6,368member
    That's fairly normal for burning a CD. When iTunes does this, it has to make sure that the CD burn gets priority over other applications so that you don't get CD burn-in, when the CD burner waits too long for data and the laser burns into a point on the CD. In order to prevent burn-in, the CD burning process makes sure it won't be interrupted, so everything else has to take a back seat.
  • Reply 2 of 3
    emaneman Posts: 7,204member
    Yeah, that's pretty normal The last time I used iTunes to burn a CD I really couldn't do anything else because it was so slow. I use Toast 98% of the time so I really don't care.
  • Reply 3 of 3
    firehcfirehc Posts: 368member
    thanks guys,
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