I an normally using either 1.6mhz laptop w/1 gig ram, or home built amd64 3500+ w/2 gig of ram.

The 'above normal' priority makes it difficult for other applications to work properly in either computer.

Perhaps lower spec comptuers may need the priority boost, however all the discs I burned at 'lower' priority burned fine.

Thats why I suggest an option in the burn dialog to allow/disallow the priority boost for those who do/dont need it. Obviously it should also remember the last chosen setting too.

Maybe it's needed to guarantee a successful burn. What are your machine specs that it slows down so much?

I've recently burned a couple cd-audio discs using MM (I typically don't burn audio/mp3 at all), and noticed that the priority for the background task is set for "Above normal".

In my MM options, I have set the priority for background tasks @ "Lower".

This burn preperation is not using the priority I have set, and at "above normal" priority causes my computer to multitask poorly.

When I right click the thread and set the priority to 'lower', then the computer returns to normal responsiveness.

I would prefer that MM perform the burning at the background task priority I have set in my options, or at a minimum allow for an option to set the base priority of burning either in the MM options or in the burn dialog.

I don't want MM making my computer behave poorly.