Lee, Getting close. Setting the mpd device as you suggested makes the PCM slider work correctly while mpd is playing. mpd has a volume control which I can access using phpmp, but this does not seem to change the volume level, as it does on systems with different hardware. There are some mixer settings I can play with in mpd that may make this work, but any clues as to where to start reading besides the man page would be appreciated. In xmms, when I configure the plugin to use the defualt device, the slider on the xmms display and the alsamixer PCM slider move together, but the volume does not change. There is a 'software volume control' checkbox in this configuration which does work. - Hide quoted text - On 9/1/05, Lee Revell <rlrevell(a)joe-job.com > wrote: On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 15:37 -0600, Dave Price wrote: That's wrong, the device should be "default" not "hw:0,0". Lee -- aloha, dave