Still don't know what to do about my mike settings; am wondering if I'm somehow still running some part of speakfreely if this is causing my mike settings not to work. I'm not getting -4074 at the moment at the end of cdda2wav runs but I really don't want to start up sfr again and maybe still have the same problem. If anybody can tell me a way to find out what is going on with this, I'd appreciate it. I haven't rebooted because i'm busy doing cdda2wav and oggenc, but it seems to me that I rebooted yesterday afternoon and that didn't change the sfr situation.