To clarify the issue, the program "freezes" requiring a restart whenever I try to analyze audio, whenever I update tags, whenever I pretty much do anything other than play audio. The PC is new and the issues have occurred under 3 different antivirus progz. It becomes a fight just trying to update cue files for creating playlists (files are flac). I am constantly getting Program not responding errors. just now while trying to analyze audio in a playlist the prog froze 3 times, I just gave up. If I can't get this to work I will obviously have to find a better or at least more stable media player/server. Have done backup/restore 4 times, dumped prog and reinstalled 2 times, turned off virus prog, firewall, all non essential progz to no avail. Makes no sense at all. Will set up logging to see if there is info there to help manage the problem. Thanks for comments.