[stublack]

Thank you for all your help.
I haven't had the time to play around with the remove silence feature yet and I hope that works for me. I'm a little disappointed that we will never have a true cross fade but I can live without it.
I don't like having other applications running while I have Hoster running, but if anyone can suggest a DJ software program (with crossfade) that's not as clunky as ITUNES I might give that a shot for playing regular MP3

Thanks again, Stu