Dear Sir, Funny and interesting discovery. Well, I will unfortunately not use audacious on some stations for the following reasons. well, I cannot due to some x reasons. here we go. I have an nfs server that share /mnt/music. nothing special till now For some stations, I have a netgear ethernet through cables electric. so internet comes from electric plug via netgear stuffs well it is useful sicne no wirelss nor cables through walls however itis extremely slow network ok I run audacious to listen music... and lag lag lag network too slow ok. pitty but but I now can listen well music ;) yep with MPLAYER mplayer * simply does it and my network for station is not saturated anymore and I can even do remote SSH on other machines ;) cool I wish you a beautiful day of summer Regards Yellow