Thanks to everyone who's responded to my question. The thing is, though, that I did redownload the file in question two or three times and still had the same problem. I also do not use speech, so I know it's not a problem with my sound card not allowing two sounds to play at once. I just installed Winamp v2.76, hoping that that would do something, but clearly, it hasn't. I did ctrl-p to access the menus and tried selecting .mp3 as a file type, but I guess this still isn't doing the trick. Can I use Realplayer to play .mp3's? I never seem to have any trouble with Realplayer. But Winamp is what was opened when I went to play that file. Thanks again to all who took the time to respond. Does anyone have any other suggestions? Rachel VICUG-L is the Visually Impaired Computer User Group List. To join or leave the list, send a message to [log in to unmask] In the body of the message, simply type "subscribe vicug-l" or "unsubscribe vicug-l" without the quotations. VICUG-L is archived on the World Wide Web at http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/vicug-l.html