Jazzer -

That feature was implemented for folks with less powerful PC's (whether it's CPU, available RAM, or hard disk performance). When BIAB starts a song, it generates enough to get it going and you hear playback almost instantaneously; however, it keeps generating the rest of the song in the background. Depending upon the horsepower of your computer, that background generation may interfere with the sound currently playing. Using this feature, it forces BIAB to completely generate all the tracks of the song before starting to play. That way, the generation isn't running in the background anymore while the song is playing.

Are you running BIAB from your local hard drive or from the external USB drive. If it's from the external drive, you may want to consider installing RT's/RD's to your local drive instead (which does take a lot of space, however). But that should improve the performance. You may also want to try using a different USB port for your drive (but make sure the drive letter doesn't change when you do that), or you may want to use the double cable to ensure that the drive is getting enough power. But in the end, the throughput of processing tracks from a local SATA drive is much higher than a USB-2 connection (assuming that's what you are using).

John

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