Hank wrote: "you can't cross faid with linux and I have yet to find a consol program that does this sort of thing any one know something I don't?" If they do, I hope that they will speak up...so to speak, <smile>! What I ultimately envision doing is a radio show on either ACB radio or the "for the people" (FTP, not to be confused with "file transfer protocol") site. I don't know whether or not anyone who is doing internet broadcasting on either of those sites is using a linux box to do so. Now, when Janina responded to my initial post, she did say: "Seems to me that linux would be a more stable and more accessible server for that [internet broadcasting]." I believe that the folks I know who are doing internet broadcasting are using their computers as music terminals or studios which stream content up to some other server which people then log on to; hence, were I to do this, I don't believe my computer would be acting as a server. My primary motivation for becoming conversant with linux was because I wanted to host my own http and ftp sites. Now, if my father said this once in his life, he said it ten thousand times: "The right tool for the right job." (He worked in construction all his life.) So, given my desire to self-host my own jamsite.us domain, and with the above-quoted montra in mind, there was no way I was going to use microsoft's software for that task, with all its security flaws, instability, etc. However, if, in fact, what Hank believes is correct...that their is no linux software that supports cross-fading, then windows, even with all its flaws, may be the "right tool" for that, the "internet dj", job. Indeed, less than an hour ago, I read Sean McMahon's post about the availability of OCR software running under linux. The point of this discussion being simply this; (and I'm not pointing any fingers at any specific individuals on this list; I am oftimes perturbed by a pervasive attitude which seems to exist in certain sectors of the linux community which holds that anyone who uses microsoft software is the anti-christ. Hey, you use what you got to use...or what you know how to use...to get the job done in the way that you want or need for it to be done. I would exhort those who hold the aforementioned view to allow it to serve as a motivation for working toward the day when the catalog of application programs written for linux is every bit as robust as that written for windows, which operating system, whether those in the linux community would care to acknowledge it or not, (and irrespective of how they or anyone else feels about it) is the predominant operating system today. John
