I have got PHP up and running and the example is parsing ok so I'll give it a try ..

Thanks for your help Jay .. this little program is most excellent ..

Shaz

what I would like to do is display the now playing on all the pages .. is there a way I can do this easily ?

It looks exactly as I expect it to here :
http://dilfradio.kicks-ass.net:9090/dilfradio/nowplaying.html

but not here :
http://dilfradio.kicks-ass.net:9090/dilfradio/index.html

Nowplaying ...