Dear Chris I should have asked you this won before. Do I have to open Ipodder in order for the program to check every few hours, or can I just leave the program running in the system tray, and will the program still check for podcast if I have it set for every 8 hours. Another words how do I leave it set do I open the program, So that directory and the library and all of its functions are available, or do I just leave it running in the system tray. Sorry for the long windedness, but I am not very good @ explaining this. All the best from Joseph. Why do bad things happen to good people!