Phil: You have a lot of questions; let's try to take them one at a time. 1. If one reboots a computer with an open file handle, I would expect the result you got. So, no! SR should do what it does. Its kind of like taking a disk out of the drive while reading it, but worse, because there is no chance of recovery. 2. We could consider background decoding. There are a lot of issues, and I don't know that it would be useful for that many people. A lot of times, random access to the open MP3 file is really all you need; it may not even be worth decoding. Rob Meredith >>> phil@xxxxxxxxxxxx 05/03/06 10:04AM >>> Hi Rob, While I was listening to an mp3 podcast that was on my wife's backup drive she rebooted her computer and I got an error message from Studio Recorder that the task was not completed. After she rebooted and the drive was now available I hit enter to clear the OK box and tried to continue listening. I still got the same error message. I was able to check the current time with g, then re-load the file and continue from that point but shouldn't SR have done that automatically? I suspect that by SR streaming the file in a little at a time the mp3 can be read more quickly than if it was all loaded into memory which Gold Wave does. We have a two computer network and her one is the server. Would it be possible to have an option so that while I am listening to a podcast, in the background SR is also loading it into doc 1 or copying it to my computer? Thanks, Phil