Thanks, since I did a sync with emplode I imagine that is why the gears temporarily disappeared during playback. I got excited for a minute thinking it was finished.

As of 6:am this morning it was still compressing. I don't see this as a problem at all; was just initially curious if there was a rule of thumb on cd compression at two rates. Say for example it took ten minutes for eash compression then I could say 250 x 10minutes (for 320kbps) x 10 minutes (for 96kbps) = 25,000 minutes or 416 hours. Likewise if it only took one minute per compression I would be looking at 41.6 hours (apparently each compression takes more than a minute).

Thanks, this is a very cool piece of equipment.