Hi Aristotle. It was very generous of you to take so much time over "my" script, which, as I mentioned earlier, was almost entirely a mere cobbling together by me of bits and pieces which I'd taken from others. Given that you'd created an alternative script, I took the liberty of trying it out. Having saved it and made it executable by all, I then tried to run it in a terminal window. The directory in which I was when I did so contained two .wma files, Beethoven1.wma, which was a re-named file I'd copied over from my Windows computer, and Beethoven2.wma, which was just a copy of Beethoven1.wma, created so that I could test what happened when I tried to convert multiple files from wma to mp3. This is what happened. I got the following output: "Beethoven1.wma => Beethoven1.wma.wav Could not find "Beethoven1.wma.wav". Beethoven2.wma => Beethoven2.wma.wav" and then the graphical representation of the xmms player appeared on the screen, without any activity being apparent. After some time when nothing had happened, I tried to close that representation, but its close box wouldn't respond. I then closed the terminal window, upon which the xmms window closed too. I then opened xmms and checked the output plugin situation. I found that the output plugin was Disk Writer, which I'd expected, since the script hadn't had the chance to restore the OSS plugin. If what I've reported above suggests to you some tiny glitch in your script and you don't feel that you've spent too much time on it already, I'd be grateful to hear what amendment should be made to it. Best wishes, Leslie