I installed mplayer today on a debian system with alsa working and was immediately able to listen to 3 radio stations which have mp3 feeds and part of a stream whose link ended in the .wmv file extension but the feed seemed to simply die shortly after starting so I am not sure what that is all about yet. The biggest problem I see right now is how to find the actual links that have the audio. Many sites have files ending in .asx which is a little bit of html that contains the relevant links. If I can get that far, I can feed the url to mplayer and it works perfectly. I can run lynx with the -source flag and find some of those links if they are on the first page, but I wonder if there is a better way to do this? I did write a little C program to look for href=" in source code and it makes life much less of a headache when lines have over 100 characters in them and there may be more than one link. If the site uses javascript, one must find the href statements and then splice the server's address on to them to make them absolute. Can lynx be made to dump source from pages after descending a link? If there is an easier way to do this, I am happy to hear how stupid I am. I will also let you have the C code I wrote so you can pull links out of source code. The ACBradio site is a good example of the kind of trouble I have run in to so far. The C program I wrote takes html source as standard input and spits out lines containing the information inside the quotes after the expression href=" . It isn't a magic cure, but makes finding possible links faster. Many thanks for any good suggestions. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK OSU Information Technology Division Network Operations Group _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list