Hi Kerry, I dunno. I have a couple sound files that play through RealAudio and sound OK, but with play or aplay, they are absolutely unintelligible. On this CS4614 in th Thinkpad that is. On my SBLive, they sound fine. Speak Freely works OK, too. Odd. I dunno what the deal is, but there you are. -- Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV/3 | I choose you to take up all of my time. Email: davros at ycardz.com | I choose you because you're funny and kind | I want easy people from now on. | --the Nields