Hi Jude: If you mean just hearing an audio or video-and-not any details, here is an alias which works here for 1 of my 4 sound-cards. mpv1: aliased to mpv --really-quiet --no-video --audio-device=alsa/plughw:CARD=AudioPCI,DEV=0 Back again live, I wish there were a way of setting up a hotkey to read an elapsed time. Chime