For skip-free Internet radio listening on a busy or flaky connection, crank up the buffer size in XMMS. Right click on the XMMS window, then, from the drop-down menu, select Options -> Preferences. From the Audio I/O Plugins tab, select MPEG Layer 1/2/3 Player and then click Configure. Next, select the Streaming tab and increase the buffer size. If you have a lot of free memory, go ahead and make the buffer as big as you want. You also can reduce the Pre-buffer (percent) entry so that you don't have to wait a lot of pre-buffering time before your music starts playing. Happy listening. More on XMMS here: http://www.xmms.org/. www.linuxjournal.com ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the Internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!