Hi Kevin: I noticed that you didn't answer my questions. So, at the risk of wasting mine and everybody else's time, I will ask you one last time: 1. What is your specific piece of software called? 2. What *exactly* does it do? 3. Where do I download it from? I've not found anything remotely like what you've attempted to describe in your previous posts in the alsa-tools package, either 0.9.4 or the current 0.9.8 release. This will be my last attempt to understand what you're trying to tell us. Geoff.