XLD ripping slowly

Thanks for your response. Yes, it was a classical CD, new, right out of the box.

My XLD rips seem to have slowed down after the last update. The last rip took more than 30 minutes, normally they finish in just a few minutes. Is this an every time occurrence?
I won't rip without XLD.
Are you sure you didn't rip it 3 times? ;)

I think XLD supports paranoid rip which made my Sony external drive sound like it was going through labor pains and took a stupendously long time.

I disabled that and I still get AccurateRips as long as the disc is in the database and even when not, there's a confidence level attached to the rip.

I haven't updated in a while tho

Use XLD Secure ripping, C2 pointers enabled, set read offset correctly , test before copy- only if not in AR data base..