[ddouglass]

Skybird,
There are a lot of possible causes for long loading times. Some manufacturers use cheap disks for their production. Those cheaper, thinner disks cause a large number of errors which forces the read speed to slow drastically.

Importing from a singer's disk brings a whole lot more problems into play. The disk they hand you can be dirty, scratched, cracked or even a bad copy (not correctly copied). There is no way that any program can over come these physical problems. Importing a singer's disk is risky at best.

And as Bryan said previously once the disk is in read mode this is a hardware function and you cannot get out of it (except by ejecting cd) until it finishes. The Cancel button only works after the read is finished.

I personally still carry my CDG player and have it setup into my mixer to use for singer's CDs. The player is light weight, easy to set up, and is much more tolerant of bad tracks than the computer drive.