Question about burning speeds

This has happened from new.
As you see from my Mac Pro specs, it's not daft , but when I tell it to burn a DVD or CD at x4
which is my preferred speed (nice and safe) it ignores me and does it at x8-10 varying
Importing CDs into itunes it gets up to x22ish
Does anyone know how to slow it down ?

Well, first of all, importing songs into iTunes is not the same as burning. Burning is a write operation. Importing is a read operation. (From the standpoint of the optical drive).
You can't really control the read-speed of the drive when importing into iTunes although iTunes does automatically control it if there are errors detected.
As for burning, what program are you using? I'm assuming you are using Toast if you know the actual speed at which the disc is being burned at as Finder/Disk Utility do not report this statistic. When you select 4x in toast, is the number bold? If it isn't then it isn't a recommended burning speed for your drive/media and will automatically step up to the next safest level.
Hope this helps!

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I've never had problems burning discs on iTunes until today, I tried to burn one of my playlists on a Memorex CD-R.
- The burn seemed to be going OK at first, but the drive started making an obnoxious, loud noise by the 4th song out of 16.
- The progress bar in iTunes then said "burning disc, finalizing" even though the CD had not been finished.
- The drive practically launches the CD out, causing it to drop, rather than ejecting half way and holding it like usual. An error message came up saying something along the lines of, "iTunes cannot burn this CD because the burn speed is too high for the CD drive or media. Lower the burn speed in the burning pane of preferences"
- I tried it again without changing the burn speed (which I suppose was set to maximum) thinking it was something to do with the disc. The same thing happened the second time I tried to burn the disc. The reason I didn't change the burn speed when it asked me to was because I'd never been prompted about the burn speed and I've used the whole stack of these Memorex CD's without problems.
I am trying to figure out where the problem really lies - does this sound like an iTunes issue (which needs an update except that my system does as well), CD issue or a drive issue? Is there a more reasonable burn speed I should try next time?
Any help would be so appreciated, thank you!!
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Try a different brand. Highly recommended:
FUJI
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Make sure the CDs are not dirty, smudged and/or scratched.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=50448 How to Handle and Clean CD and DVD Discs
Your drive may need cleaning. Cleaning kits can be purchased from any store that sells CD/DVDs.
Repair permissions after each burning session.

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it has said finishing for an awfully long time. so i changed speed to 4x. i have a memorex cd-r brand 700 mb 80 minute blank cd in. i am burning about 35 minutes of my own voice. is there anyway i can see what song number it is on transferring and stuff like that? and how long should the burning process take.

Topdawg, since this is a burning issue & not really a mini issue, I would strongly suggest you re-post in the iTunes for Windows forums under the sub-group, importing & burning. You will probably have a better chance of getting help in that forum.

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Hi, I am going to buy a used Mac off of ebay and I am pretty clueless about where to start. I am not very knowledgable when it comes to the difference in processing speeds on pc's and apples both and have just been using what has been passed along. I am on a budget and cannot afford to do a bunch of upgrades when I get a new (to me) apple. I am currently working on a old pc (8 years?) that has had as many upgrades as it can handle. It is a Pentium III 548 mhz, 384 mb of ram and 40g hd on Windows XP. The Apple that I am stuck on getting right now is a G3 with a bunch of upgrades. It is an Imac PowerPC g3 with a 600mhz processor, 512 mb of memory, 120 gb hard drive. It has OS X 10.4 Tiger and ILife and has a single processor. It has a airport extreme card also. My question is 1) Does it take less mhz and ram to run the operating system for an apple and 2) am I going to notice a big difference in speed between what I have now and with the apple? The g3 is $249 and comes with a 90 day guarantee minus shipping. Any help is appreciated, thanks in advance!
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I use finder to burn mp3 cd's all the time...basically because its way faster and I can fit multiple amounts of mp3's on a cd-r...but my question is this...my itunes library is filed like - artist name/album/songs....then in songs each track is given a track # ie..01, 02, 03 etc...but when I drag songs from my library to a burn folder the songs won't stay in the order that i drag them when they are burned to cd...instead of the order i dragged them Finder always burns them in alphabetical order??? Is there any way to make finder burn mp3's not in alphabetical order??? Thx!!!

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Hi
I was hoping for a bit of advice before I burned my DVD.
I have an iMovie project that lasts about 1hr 40 mins that I want to burn using iDVD. I realise this is long - much longer than any movies I've done before, so I was just wondering if there are any tips I should follow to make sure the whole process works smoothly.
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Due to these problems, should I be aborting the project, fix them and try again,
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I am considering buying a PowerMac G5/2.3 dual-processor. I currently have a G4/350 with a 1.2 Ghz Sonnet processor installed. My main intent is to speed up MPEG2 compression for DVDSP 4 at any encoding setting compared with what I have now. I usually leave this computer running overnight to encode without any other apps running. Typical video length is 1-2 hours.
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You'll see a difference, for sure.
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Toast will work. Just open it and choose make dvd video. You cn choose if you want menus or not. If it is a single video file I suggest no menus. For two or more menus help a lot. Toast will take the avi file and make it into a file your dvd player can use. Then add your file and burn it.
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Two question about running speed in Labiview RT and FPGA

hi All
Right now I am working on a project, which need to be developed on Labview RT and FPGA
Here I have two quick question.
1. Why sampling rates of RTD (9217) module is very slow, it is just aroud 1/sec? even I just tried to run Labview example.
2. We would like to develop another HMI, which can be used for monitoring the program running in CompactRIO. In my project, i want to use network publish varible to implement this function. but the running speed become very slow, when I put these variable into my codes. (Shown in attachment)
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Question about transfer speed of my cloud ex2 product. request advice please

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I'm a bit confused by this, how it relates to CPU speed, FSB speed, double-pumped this, quad-pumped that. I know my RAM is working harder on account of having to up the voltage on it, but I can't work out how or why. The BIOS is about as illuminating as a cellar, the manual doubly so.
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What I want is the RAM operating at top speed, regardless of the CPU being OC'd or stock. The required voltage increase seems to suggest it is, but the numbers say otherwise.
Any help/advice/input would be gratefully received. I've read a whole bunch of guides but none of those I've been able to find cover this area in any detail.
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If so, which give the greater performance benefit (in games mainly), 4.4.4.12 at 800mhz, or 5.5.5.18 at 1066mhz?

Quote from: AaronYuri on 11-May-08, 21:21:03
No, the memory frequency isn't bottle necked by the FSB. The FSB is just the base for calculating the memory frequency.
Oh well, that doesn't mean much to me. But from what I can gather from the thread you linked there isn't much advantage to running the RAM at 1066 vs 800 anyway, as the performance difference I'd see in games would be negligible.
Thanks Aaron.

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