Real Player is so obnoxious that I have decided never to buy it. It also will download an mp3, save it in a temp dir, then the next time reload it over the net again if you try to immediately replay it ... It sits on my PC, and I have decided not to stop it running as the primary player only thru laziness.

Funny enough there is a free player that handles almost anything - graphics were its first forte, but now it plays most sound and video as well - continually upgraded.

'Irfanview' - available everywhere, even on many PC magazine CDs. Once you have one version, you can easily track down the upgraded versions.

Robin