Trying to get weather stuff running on a new RPi and it isn't flying. I have chased it to the Google side. The snippets of words get sent to google translator, and mp3 files come back, and the script sticks all the files together in order. But the routine fails in lame conversion. I have taken other mp3's and lame converts them fine. When I try to run either the assembled mp3 or one of the individual mp3 files I get header error on them. Also noted that the individual files, maybe 50-80 of them are only about 400 bytes long and after cat puts them together the file is maybe 50k, which sounds wrong. I didn't do anything to this stuff, just using what was in Doug's Raspberry Pi distro, which otherwise works great. Anybody have any suggestions on this conversion? I see older versions of w0anm's scripts do not sent the text to Google for conversion but instead use one of two applications to convert them. Guessing the choice to move it off the pi was based on processor horsepower. GeorgeC W2DB 2360