thanks if you're about to answer my question on fading in winamp, but I now have the solution. Regards to all Steve Green ----- Original Message ----- From: Stephen Green To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 10:13 PM Subject: [access-uk] hearing skipping noise when fast forwarding in winamp I know that this should rightly go to winamp for the blind group, but since I'm not a member, I wonder if someone on this list could direct me to the answer. I haven't updated winamp for some time, but I've had to reinstall with the latest full version - 5.541. However, I like to hear my audio files fast forwarding when I press and hold the right cursor button. Winamp now seems to have a mechanism that uses what I believe is called soft start and stop between presses of the cursor buttons so that now there is no background noise when fast forwarding. I tend to rely on this facility to monitor the fast forward for getting to the next music segment in a recorded radio broadcast, thus skipping past the DJ's comments, weather forecasts, etc. So my question is: how can I reinstate the skipping noise when I fast forward? Any pointers would be helpful. Steve Green