This very strange bug occour, if I press Control-C just after starting mpg123. Really hard to reproduct this bug. Here is a transcript (look at the elapsed time counter: 00:00.-2): ----- cut here ----- otg:~# mpg123 -v -b 4096 /Mp3/Shaggy\ -\ Boombastic.mp3 High Performance MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 Audio Player for Layer 1, 2 and 3. Version 0.59q (1999/Jan/26). Written and copyrights by Michael Hipp. Uses code from various people. See 'README' for more! THIS SOFTWARE COMES WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY! USE AT YOUR OWN RISK! Title : Boombastic Artist: Shaggy Album : Year: Comment: Genre: Reggae Directory: /Mp3/ Playing MPEG stream from Shaggy - Boombastic.mp3 ... MPEG 1.0, Layer: III, Freq: 44100, mode: Joint-Stereo, modext: 0, BPF : 626 Channels: 2, copyright: No, original: Yes, CRC: No, emphasis: 0. Bitrate: 192 Kbits/s, Extension value: 0 Audio: 1:1 conversion, rate: 44100, encoding: signed 16 bit, channels: 2 Frame# 0 [ 9434], Time: 00:00.-2 [04:06.46], [ 4608] [0:00] Decoding of Shaggy - Boombastic.mp3 finished. ----- cut here ----- I am using Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (potato), kernel 2.2.17 and libc6 2.1.3-13. Lenart Janos <ocsi@irisz.hu> Fingerprint: 6331 1CAE C246 42A4 A15D F750 79FC CFD2 B045 8F4D