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>> In the old Animation Player for Windows it was possible to play the music off a CD while the animation was being played. This was very useful due to the processing and disk overhead of high quality wave files. Why has this feature been eliminated in the new Animator Studio – or have I missed something ? Please put this feature back in ! There is little value being able to play animations through memory using the script routine, if there is going to be a delay as each file is loaded before it is played. How could one in effect, create the LOADFLIC and FREEFLIC commands that are part of the DOS script language that enable FLICS to be loaded into memory from the very beginning ? Has anyone solved this problem. I popped this question last year and someone told me to use visual basic but not how! And no, I do not want to create a large RAM disk which I see as being the only other solution. << i know exactly what you're talking about on this. 😉 yeah, the previous player didn't have a delay as the flics could all be preloaded with loadflic in the script before being played, so there was no delay if you had enough RAM. the current AStudio scriptor does allow you to load flics into ram using Movie/Settings/Load into memory… problem is… while it's loading, the sound stops, even when sound settings have been designated from one flic to another (starting with and ending with options). i have been unable to get the scriptor to avoid this unless i (as you suggest) have the flics preloaded on a ramdisk (normal playback, no "load into memory" options used), or using a very fast harddisk/system (pentium with damn fast drive). ideally, AniPro's scheme worked best.. preload everything, play music in background at all times, including loads and frees. here's some things i've done in meantime… use AVIs (instead of FLC/WAV) for coordinated no-chop playback even though there are pauses between "load into memory", used Windows media player in background with sound file and played flics with scriptor <hey, no chop but seems to defeat purpose of scriptor>, continue using old player with script ability, and forward info to Mark Gerhard. Mark does a lot of presentations… i'm sure this stuff is on his mind a lot. 🙂 just got back from Art Teco Multimedia conference in Sausalito… there is a patch schedule soon… Mark may know if this issue is being resolved as he mentioned several things about Scriptor module being updated. -dave