> In order to improve ripping speed, encoding gets
> suspended when you're ripping.

AHA!

I'm still at 80% for the last 3-4 hours (no movement on free space since I awoke), the gears are turning though. Haven't ripped anything since I awoke either.

Is it possible that by leaving it in multi-cd mode, it's actually not encoding at all, even if I'm not ripping CDs at the time? Overnight, I put the unit in standby, which allowed it to go from 84% to 80%...

-brendan