Hello, I use the flac-113.bat batch file provided by synthetic_soul to convert files from older flac version and have found that it works great with one exception. I have thousands of flac files and I drag the highest level directory to the script which starts the recursive process and everything looks great at first (encoding window shows constant progress). But if I come back a few hours later I will notice that the encoding process has slowed considerably. Looking at the FLAC encoding screen I will see that it encodes to a particular percentage (say 41%) and then pauses for up to a minute before continuing and possibly pausing again before the file is completed. Looking at task manager I see no CPU activity during the time that flac appears paused. If I cancel the script and start it again the pauses continue but if I reboot the machine then the encodes start fast again (without pausing) until a certain point then it slows down again. So it seems like a reboot will fix the condition that causes the pauses but canceling the script and restarting does not. This process is running on a 1.4Ghz Celeron XP SP2 box with 768MB RAM. Has anyone else experienced this phenomenon and maybe found a work around? Thanks in advance. -Paul