Hello, First, I hope that everyone is having a happy holiday. Is there any reason why I would be able to get software speech but no music through either cmus or mplayer? Seems strange to me, so I can only assume that it has something to do with Pulseaudio. David, I can't remember what you said about Pulseaudio a few days ago and I lost your message. there's something I need to edit to keep Pulseaudio from taking over the speech because now I'm not getting speech when I boot, LOL. -- Thanks, Robert Spangler, B.A. in Urban Studies and Spanish spangler.robert at gmail.com