Used i pod ?.

[BrianG]

Well, that might be your computer. Not sure what you're running for OS (WinXP SP2 you sometimes need to force device manager to detect USB2), but if you are hooking it to a USB1 port, the port will limit the speed no matter what the device supports. But even at USB2 speeds, transferring 1GB or more does take a while.

Also, are you sure you were transferring a compressed sound file? If you just pulled the song off a CD, it might be in WAV format, which will be around 10MB/minute (as opposed to around 1-2MB/Minute for MP3), and so will take a very long time.