XLD ripping slowly

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..