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Re: [LUG] Copying Music to Hard drive

 

On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 14:16 +0000, Richard Brown wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I've got a friend who I set up with Ubuntu 8.10. He is currently
> trying to move all his music to the hard drive ready to take on
> holiday with him. However, the first cd he put into the disk drive
> took four hours to copy to the hard drive.
> 
> Any ideas why it would take so long please?
> -- 
> Kind regards
> Rich
> http://www.cregy.co.uk
> Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him.
> Romans 12 v 1
> 


A little more info would help, before suggesting this was a damaged CD.
How was your friend trying to copy the CD? What piece of software was he
using? Was he attempting to convert it to mp3 (or similar)? What device
is he taking on holiday with his music on it (I'm guessing it isn't a
PC)?

Simon


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