[billykeys]

thanks much -- kinda what I thought, I was hoping there was some setting or something to give the "Show module" a higher priority, let the disc reading be slow, but keep the song playing... It might be my imagination or feeble old memory, but I thought sure that I could load a cdg while playing a couple years ago... I stopped doing shows for a while, recently upgraded the software, and hit the road again. Whence I found I couldn't do it... I wonder if the newer versions are more taxing on the system or something?

MTU, any suggestions? Are your new laptops configured/powerful enough to do this?