Slow Plextor drives
This may help if you have a Plextor USB external drive. Most of the plextor drives are USB 2.0. Unfortunately most computers still have the standard USB 1.1 interface. I just bought a new Pentium 4 HP with a 2.66 ghz processor and it did not have USB 2.0!
I bought a 4 port USB 2.0 PCI card on eBay for less than $15.00 including postage. A USB 2.0 divice will work with a USB 1.1 interface but will run up to 70 times slower!
With the new USB card I burned a composite of 20 of my favorite songs on one disk and it took about 6 minutes to burn. Of course it took much longer to pick all the songs from about 15 different discs.
One more thing: The Microstudio has a play mode so you can check your newly burned disc right after you burn it. You can even use your computer and the Microstudio software to play any CD+G Karaoke discs. Just add a microphone and your computer is a Karaoke Machine!
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