Hi, Just some debug feedback: $ xine -A alsa /home/colin/Music/Coldcut/People\ Hold\ On:\ The\ Best\ Of\ Coldcut/01\ -\ People\ Hold\ On\ \(feat.\ Lisa\ Stansfield\).ogg This is xine (X11 gui) - a free video player v0.99.5. (c) 2000-2007 The xine Team. ** Message: Screensaver is not running! E: stream.c: Assertion 's' failed at pulse/stream.c:2037, function pa_stream_set_buffer_attr(). Aborting. Aborted $ aplay /usr/share/sounds/ia_ora-notification.wav Playing WAVE '/usr/share/sounds/ia_ora-notification.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 22050 Hz, Stereo E: stream.c: Assertion 's' failed at pulse/stream.c:2037, function pa_stream_set_buffer_attr(). Aborting. Aborted by signal Aborted... My mplayer gets a different error: mplayer: pcm_pulse.c:275: pulse_write: Assertion `pcm->last_size >= (size * pcm->frame_size)' failed. Although this is going via the old libpulse.so.0 as my mplayer is 32 bit and I've not rebuilt the 32 bit pulse library. Not sure if this is helpful or not or if I'm cocking up in some way. Col