Hi, Seems that since using stable-queue my paplay just freezes. It seems to be polling happily but is stuck in the DRAINED state. 1 sink input(s) available. index: 54 driver: <protocol-native.c> flags: state: DRAINED sink: 0 <alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo> volume: 0: 34% 1: 34% 0: -28.26 dB 1: -28.26 dB balance 0.00 muted: no current latency: 742.31 ms requested latency: 371.52 ms sample spec: s16le 2ch 22050Hz channel map: front-left,front-right Stereo resample method: speex-float-0 module: 8 client: 30 <paplay> properties: media.format = "WAV (Microsoft)" application.name = "paplay" media.name = "/usr/share/sounds/ia_ora-notification.wav" native-protocol.peer = "UNIX socket client" native-protocol.version = "16" application.process.id = "7420" application.process.user = "colin" application.process.host = "jimmy" application.process.binary = "pacat" application.language = "en_GB.UTF-8" window.x11.display = ":0.0" application.process.machine_id = "9a204f459424a797333b3f268d6ea200" application.process.session_id = "9a204f459424a797333b3f268d6ea200-1264191708.300994-2125713140" module-stream-restore.id = "sink-input-by-application-name:paplay" Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mandriva Linux Contributor [http://www.mandriva.com/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]