Getting Media Status "pauses"

[dbminter]

Sometimes in Read mode of CD's, I get long pauses at the Getting Media Status part.  It can take up to a minute, sometimes.  Is this based on the number of Tracks on a CD?  I've tended to notice this happens more often on CD's with the maximum number of tracks, 99.  However, some 99 track CD's in the same boxed set wouldn't do this.  So, I don't know why it may happen sometimes and sometimes not.

 

 

Thanks!

[LIGHTNING UK!]

This is normally down to how quickly the drive can read the disc.

 

If it's having trouble reading it, perhaps erroring out, it will slow it down... as would another app trying to read it at the same time - say, if Autorun is enabled or whatever and your media player automatically pops up.

[dbminter]

Ah, in this case, it was probably iTunes trying to read it at the same time.  I had iTunes open, too, and it was loading the disc in as well on insert.