(I may or may not have botched my original attempt to send this... If I ended up sending duplicates, I apologize) > 1. Anyone successfully scripted automatically firing up a live 365 stream using command line tools and if so, any tips? A little trial and error, combined with firefox and ethereal, led to the following *ugly* one-liner. Substitute your username, password, and the stationid you care about, and you *should* soon hear streaming music... $ mplayer `wget -q --save-cookies=cookies.txt --keep-session-cookies --post-data="membername=username&password=password" http://www.live365.com/cgi-bin/login.cgi && wget -q --load-cookies cookies.txt --output-document=play.pls http://www.live365.com/cgi-bin/play.pls?stationid=297252 && sed -n '/^File1/p' < play.pls | sed 's/^File1=//'` HTH, sm