# Burning CDs from vinyl

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burning-cds-from-vinyl/71289>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 5, 2001, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burning-cds-from-vinyl/71289 "2001-07-05T02:51:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![ZenBeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2001, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burning-cds-from-vinyl/71289/21 "2001-07-06T18:50:57Z")

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> Any realtime activities (like ripping or burning a CD) should be done with all other applications closed.

Look for background tasks also, at least under windows. Here, findfast was automatically updating its index every 2 hours, by default. The whole computer would freeze for a bit.

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