Hi Ibrahim - Yes, the trouble shooting bar is at 0 percent, and I've chosen a low bit rate of 64, so that should have speeded up the process even more, but no such luck. There is a setting that I don't understand, called "avoid Vista RnR window" which is unchecked by default, there doesn't seem to be anything to say waht this is about, and I am using a Vista machine. Any more thoughts? - Andy ----- Original Message ----- From: Ibrahim Gucukoglu To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 4:27 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: Sound Taxi conversion speed Hi Andy. This sounds odd. Have you checked that the troubleshooting slide bar in the options is set all the way over to 0? Find the said control and tap left a few times to make sure it is, otherwise performance will be slow as troubleshooting mode is designed to slow down conversions for difficult files. ----- Original Message ----- From: ANDY COLLINS To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 4:01 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: Sound Taxi conversion speed Hi Ibrahim - Not sure how to test what percentage of efficiency sound taxi is working to, but even if my system is below optimum efficiency, an approximate conversion rate of 10 percent per hour of a 7 hour audio book can't be right, this makes the conversion time greater than the running time! - Andy ----- Original Message ----- From: Ibrahim Gucukoglu To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 3:03 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: Sound Taxi conversion speed Hi Andy. Conversion will only work at maximum performance if your system meets or exceeds the performance rating of sound taxi. This is a calculation of available necessary resources such as CPU usage, hard disk speed etc. A rating of efficiency is calculated to be a percentage, so see at what percentage of efficiency sound taxi is working to. Hope this helps. ----- Original Message ----- From: ANDY COLLINS To: Access-UK Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 11:44 AM Subject: [access-uk] Sound Taxi conversion speed Hi all - I've just bought the pro version of this programme, where it says it converts at 50 times the playback rate, this means to me, that a 7 hour Audible file should take less than 10 minutes to convert to MP3. I've got the conversion bitg rate set to 64 KBPS; so far, it has taken 45 minutes to convert 4 percent of the Audible file! Obviously, this isn't what I was hoping for, does anybody know why this conversion is so slow? This is on my Vista laptop. Thanks - Andy