Hello list, Sorry for the abruptness of the subject line but I have REALLY HAD enough of this! I'm trying to get gramofile to work and I CANNOT! It starts file but will not "hear" any input from the sound card. I can hear it as I play the tape that I want to digitize but any application doesn't. I have disabled the arts server and even tried it with it running and no avail. The program wants a prgram called xmixer that SuSE did not package with the system. I found xmix but the program gramofile doesn't see it! It is not this hard in M$. What do I have to do to get this crap to work as designed? I'm using 8.1 and the sould card is a SB16. Any ideas will be appreciated. Meantime I'll be banging my head on the wall. -- Marshall "Nothing is impossible, We just do not have all the anwsers to make the impossible, possible."