Hi All, I have Suse 10.0 with KDE 3.4 installed, with all the trimmings for MP3's and DVD's. I can play previously recorded (dare I mention by Windows) MP3's, installed on hard disk, no problem with Amarok and XMMS. Just wanted to be clear about this! I wanted to rip some more tracks to encode to MP3, so fired up KAudioCreator. All went well, the tracks ripped and encoded successfully (I thought) using the Lame encoder. Fired up Amarok, and tried to point it at the newly written tracks. Error message "Cannot find media, or file not readable" Tried Xmms, nothing, not even an Error message. Rechecked Amarok and XMMS with previously recorded MP3's, plays them with no problems. Tried again to rip the tracks with KaudioCreator, and Lame encoder, also tried with oggenc encoder. Neither of these work at all. Same message from Amarok "Cannot find media or file not readable" I should point out that the stand-alone RealPlayer10 has no problem playing these new tracks, so I start to think there may be a problem with both Amarok and Xmms. I then fired up GRip, with the Lame encoder, and although slower, ripped and encoded the same tracks. Success!! Tracks played in Amarok and Xmms with no problems at all. Therefore, somewhere in my KAudioCreator there is a problem. Although everything indicates the tracks are ripped and encoded in KAudioCreator, Basically the tracks will not play at all in Amarok or XMMS, but the stand-alone RealPlayer10 will play them. All the above done with GUI, not command-line. As stated above, all the relevent codecs are installed, otherwise I should not be able to play previously recorded MP3's at all. I have checked all the file properties, and they are the same on the playable track and the non-playable track. What on earth is KAudioCreator doing to these tracks when encoding them, so that they won't play? I have Googled, but found nothing similar to this problem. Silly questions time:- Does GRip use the same Lame encoder as KAudioCreator? If so, then I cannot accuse Lame of being faulty. I see that GRip uses CDParanoia as well, should KAudioCreator use this also? There is an option to set the encoder priority time, at the moment it is set to normal, should I increase this to high? Is there some magic incantation to make KAudioCreator behave itself? I admit to being totally baffled by this! It looks like GRip will be getting my business until I can resolve this issue. Sorry for the long mailing. Ian