Thanks Chuck. and, taking this a step further and simpler, for other stations I have now tried that are streamaudio, you can do: mplayer -playlist http://www.streamaudio.com/stations/asx and then append your station call letters all in caps then an underscore sign and am in caps and .asx For example: mplayer -playlist http://www.streamaudio.com/stations/asx/CFMJ_AM.asx Also just did it with an fm station and of course you just use _FM instead of _AM. Don't know if there may be other files that aren't asx that you could reach. Don't know if this formula holds for all streamaudio or how long it will remain so but this is great!!! thanks again!!! -- Cheryl "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."