On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 20:08 +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: > The problem I have is that "play", or "aplay" will not play the > soundfile if another audio app is already running Well, ogg123 will play sound while another instance of ogg123 is playing sound. But even if you find some tool, like it, that can do so. You're still at the mercy of whatever else is already using the sound. If *that* doesn't share, you're out of luck. -- (This box runs FC6, my others run FC4 & FC5, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.