that will load all the filenames without the path to the file mp3list.txt then loads the file into the list box so fast. u can then play this mp3 by /splay $findfile(%mort.mp3dir,$did(12),1). you dont need to use $remove(x,%mort.mp3dir) to ur knowledge $nopath() do the same and its the original for that purpose. briefly this is a 1000 lines snippet while it can be 600 lines snippet.