note Anonymous Monk No, this would be the shortest.. and a command line command: <CODE> while true; do NUM=`find /home/MP3/Bob_marley/*.mp3 | wc -l`; rand=$(($RANDOM%$NUM)); song=`find /home/MP3/Bob_marley/*.mp3 | sed -n ${rand}p`; echo "HTTP/1.0 200 OK\nContent-Type: audio/x-mp3stream\n\n"; dd if="$song" bs=1024; done | nc -l -p 8020 </CODE> -- joey@scare.org -- 8650 392748 2