note jeroenes [Jouke], great to see the code! May your daughter and others enjoy the use of it... <p> Little remark (at first glance): It would be nice if you warn users at startup if they are on unix and not have the 'play' command available. <p> I've glanced at CPAN (yes, it's still your friend), and I saw a few possibilities. <br>-[cpan://Audio::Play] plays sounds on both unix and win32, but it cannot play WAVs, only .au and .snd formats, which I don't know. <br>-[cpan://Audio::Play::MPG123] plays mpegs cross-platform (tested on win32 and linux). <p> There are many more modules to convert and change audio-files in different formats. Search on Audio to find them. <p> Hope this helps,<p>Jeroen<br> <i>"We are not alone"(FZ)</i> 75757 75757