Hi Andy. I suggest you email your problem to support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx It could be an error with the software or a problem with your specific system or the file your converting which is forcing the software to slow the conversion to a snails pace. All the best and sorry I can't help further. ----- Original Message ----- From: ANDY COLLINS To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 2:23 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: Converting Audible files to mp3 Hi Ibrahimm - I couldn't find a menu for preferences, just settings, and the only thing there that might make a difference according to the help file, is the trouble shooting slider, currently set to 0, it's other options being 25% 50% 75% and 100%. I've now moved it to the latter setting, but don't want to stop the current conversion, as it has now been running for 2-and-a-half-hours! and stand at 34% converted! I tried converting the same file with trouble shooting set to 100% as if it were a second file to be converted, while the first one continues at it's snails pace, but the second file seems to just be queued waiting for the first one to finish. Can you tell me where I might find the 'real time' setting you mentioned, like I said, I've no menu called preferences that I can see. Thanks - Andy ----- Original Message ----- From: Ibrahim Gucukoglu To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 12:17 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: Converting Audible files to mp3 Hi Andy. Check the preferences of sound taxi, there is a slider for real time conversion which changes the conversion speed to a crawl for those having difficulties. You need to make sure this slider is all the way over to the left at 0%. Also, check your pc's performance rating in the preferences dialog, this will be a percentage and will tell you how likely it is that you'll get best performance from the software. A whole range of factors from cpu speed and available memory will be taken in to account, but you want to make sure that this figure is as high as possible for the best conversion results. All the best and I hope the above tips have helped you some. ----- Original Message ----- From: ANDY COLLINS To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 12:04 PM Subject: [access-uk] Converting Audible files to mp3 Hi all - I use to be able to do this with Goldwave, but no longer with the latest Audible download manager, that is why I bought Sound Taxi, but at the moment, I am trying to convert a title of 100mb to mp3, and it is taking for ever! So far, it has taken 20 minutes to convert 4 percent of the file, at that rate, it is going to take over 8 hours to complete, which is longer than the real time listneing of the file, which is 7 hours; this is using the pro version of the software! Anybody say why this conversion is so slow, or suggest another programme to do this kind of file conversion more quickly? Thanks - Andy -------------------------------------------------------------------------- avast! Antivirus: Inbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 090826-0, 26/08/2009 Tested on: 27/08/2009 12:19:37 avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2009 ALWIL Software.