I don't exactly know where my problem lies, but I figured I'd put it out there. I want to stream audio to two shoutcast servers. Darkice takes up a lot of cpu time, bringing my idle percent way down. Things still run though, but I noticed that moving with Speakup, or sometimes when reading a bunch of text at once, it causes the stream to pause and click for a split second. Sorry for the vagueness, but I continue to track the source of the problem. I wish I could just get mpd to stream to the shoutcast servers, but it doesn't seem to want to work. I should say that if I disable speakup in a console, the problem goes away, only reappearing when I reenable it. Thanks for any tips anyone can give. I use a Slackware 10.2 on a 1.8 ghz machine. I just read here that they released 11.0. I'll have to see about upgrading from 10.2, has anyone tried that yet?