For #1, you could add a "sleep 5" into /usr/bin/mythfrontend (probably around line 17). That will cause it to wait an additional 5 seconds before starting the frontend. There are more elegant solutions you could do, but that would be the easiest. For #2, is the backend and frontend on the same machine? Because mythmusic doesn't use storage groups, so the files would have to be on the frontend to be played back. On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 11:55 PM, Garry Leach