solves. The issues with ALSA should be solved in ALSA itself. Or we could investigate using OSS 4. PS: This here is a bit off-topic, as we already have PulseAudio right now in many distros, and we need to fix Phonon to make it work properly with it. Still, the points Allan raised are valid and interesting. --=20 Mark Kretschmann Amarok Developer www.kde.org - amarok.kde.org