Hey Buddy: I think you've missed on this one we had this discussion a couple of times. There's a setting in your .zinf/preferences file called softmix which you need to set to false and everything should be cool. I use it a lot and it does a nice job, so does alsaplayer, mplayer and Jamie and Mick have another one they're working called xmms-console which is very nice. I don't think it's ready for prime time though. Kirk -- Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario phone: (519) 661-3061