I think this is a bug in how mplayer handles the seeking of mp3s (I'm running 0.9-10pre). It might be intentional, but since movies don't work this way, I don't think it is. When I seek a movie with the up arrow, it skips forward a minute at a time, until there is no more movie left to play. If there are 30 seconds left, and I skip forward 1 minute, the movie skips past the end and mplayer closes. With mp3 playback, if I am seeking in 60 second intervals, I can't go past the end of the song. That is, if there are 59 seconds left of the song when I hit up, it does nothing, and I have to wait the song out or use a different button. Either way, I can't just zoom through an mp3 while holding a single button. I think this is most problematic for software that use mplayer in slave mode, but it can be annoying for a user as well. Seeking backwards in mp3s does work correctly in that if you hit down while you are only 15 seconds into a song, it rewinds to second 0. Thanks Erik