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…associating flics and sound…. The flic format does not have sound associations, so you will have to do it with something like our Windows player, in the manner you described. Since it can be done, there must be applications other than ours that do this too. Animator Studio? I think that will not offer anything different in this regard. As far as "oes the .FLC file format use rectangle differencing, or is the entire screen refreshed for every frame?" I do not know the meaning of rectangle referencing. However, Flics are stored in a manner that sounds similar. The flic builds a pretty good picture of frame one, then with each successive frame records the changes from the preceding frame. So an animation with lots of foreground movement (like an architectural walkthrough) will have a larger file size as well as a harder time playing, than a flic with a similar number of frames that has a static background and very little movement.