funkstar, thanks for the explanations about the SC/SB conversations. Is there a central repository for such pearls of wisdom, or does one just acquire them through osmosis? smst, thanks very much for the metaflac code (metaflac came with my FLAC download). Using your command I created rrg.bat with just one line: for %%f in (*.flac) do metaflac.exe --remove-replay-gain %%f Then I just had to open a DOS box in each of my DTS sub-directories (a simple right-click operation for each one) and issue the RRG command, and all flacs in that directory were 'ungained'! It's done, and now I look forward to listeneing to my surround tracks shuffled in with the stereo gain-adjusted stuff. I'm prepared to wait a few years for the SurrGain tag :-))) Phil, I hadn't looked at the Windows log (never do), but I have now, and found heaps of errors every day. The most common one is an event 7000 for 'Service Control Manager', but a look at its properties suggests it's related to my WinFast TV2000 Tuner (which I no longer use) looking for a lost file. Some similar errors relate to other services not finding files - the scary thing is some of those applications (e.g. AVG7) were uninstalled years ago, but are still doing something on my system! I suspect these errors are a result of the resizing partitions on my RAID5 virtual drive (after adding an extra HDD) that I did a week ago, when Partition Magic crashed in the middle of the process. Scandisk 'repaired' lots of errors, and I was eventually able to complete the resizing, but it looks like lots of files were lost in the crash. However the slow start-up of SS after a reboot predates that event by a long shot. Neverthelss I guess I'm going to have to identify all the applications/services that are missing files, and reinstall (or uninstall) them. Surprisingly, so far I haven't noticed any bad behaviour (I mean no worse than the usual Windoze bad behaviour :-) since the resizing catastrophe. Incidentally (smst), how do you create the little box around your code fragment? [You can see I'm a complete novice to this forum stuff.] Daniel
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