This is apparently a common problem, at least among the 733/867/2x800 SuperDrive-equipped Macs.<br><br>When I rip an audio CD, almost always there is a lot of noise during one of the first few minutes of a rip (generally 3-6 minutes into the rip). Apparently this is a problem with the Pioneer 03 recorder and a firmware patch is available for Windows that corrects this, but not for Mac. It's all over Apple's support forums...<br><br>Anyone experienced this as well? I can't rip audio with my tower because of this (I use my PBG4 instead). I'd have thought Apple would have addressed this by now...<br><br>

Is THAT where that noise came from? I was wondering ...<br><br>Like you, I rip most of my stuff on my PB, but occasionally I'll rip a song or two on my tower ... now I'll be able to tell which ones by the noise =P<br><br>Thanks for the heads-up!<br><br>(and yeah, let's hope Apple gets on the ball with that, too!)<br><br>=)<br><br>***matt<br><br>

Thanks for the info, I also have this problem with my 867 and couldn't figure out what would be causing that.<br><br>Ryan<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by morserj on 04/22/02 04:26 PM (server time).</EM></FONT></P>

Well this isn't very encouraging, is it... It's already bad enough that the SuperDrive is slow at reading audio CDs (under OS 9, with SoundJam, I can rip a CD from my FireWire CD-RW at 12-14x, versus just 6-8x with the SuperDrive).<br><br>