Hi Thomas - I am very happy with 'lame' for encoding and decoding mp3 files. Your slackware distribution comes with mpg123, an mp3 player, and with the sox package which contains "play" and "rec" for playing and recording wav files. Check out Matt Campbell's trplayer and Realplayer8 for a text console interface to Realaudio streams and files. You can get there from www.linux-speakup.org HTH Chuck Visit me at http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh The Moon is Waning Crescent (48% of Full)
