>> and i have the feeling that 'truncate' and 'append' make no >> difference. recording is always appended when i don't close the file >> and reopen it. OM> That's the intended behaviour. 'stop' is more a 'pause' than a real stop message. 'play' then 'unpauses' OM> recording. ok. but what is the difference between 'append' and 'truncate' then? joreg.