Hello, I´m having a problem when playing music with programs that use aRts. The way i checked that the problem is aRts itself is by running xmms, which uses alsa directly, and the sound was fine. Also the CD player works fine. When i tried to play music using the aRts player(#artsplay) the sound was jumping. I configured aRts to use default settings through the KDE sound-system GUI application. I also followed some basic procedures in the aRts handbook such as: 1. Setting RW permissions to everyone on: 1. /dev/dsp 2. /dev/seqencer 3. /dev/mixer 2. Deleting files from the /tmp/mcop-<user> directory 3. Running aRts manually: #artsd -F 10 -S 4096 At some point of doing all that #artsplay worked fine! But later it went back to play jumping sound. Can anyone help me with that or direct me to a site where i can find an answer to this problem. Thanks, Yev