> I need to automate a process for slicing audio files in AIFF format on > multiple files everytime perfect silences are met (zero-amplitude). Do you really mean PERFECT silence? If so, that's a fairly trivial program to write. If you use Erik de Castro Lopo's libsndfile <http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile/>, then you can be completely freed from having to worry about 99% of the "system specific" stuff in the program. libsndfile will handle it correctly for you. =MB= -- A focus on Quality.