Oh right. Riamus2 has brought up the main reason why it wouldn't work. The $ini() is trying to find the match for the topic 2009 :P , which probably doesn't exist. According to the help file, $ini(mirc.ini,1) returns the 1st topic and so on. By using $ini() with a number in conjunction with the play command's topic match confuses it! This $ini() suggestion was made by hixxy originally and jaytea confirmed that it may result in a potential error. I suppose we all learn something from our oversight at one point or another. smile