Dear All, I am using a little known but very useful channel variable called "playback_timeout_sec" In Lua if I do: session:setVariable("playback_timeout_sec", "10") and subsequently in a macro I have: <action function="play-file" date="/some/filename.mp3" /> Then the filename.mp3 stops playing automatically after 10 seconds. This is very useful if you want to play short excerpts of a file that could be very long. But if I do: <action application="set" date="playback_timeout_sec=10" /> <action function="play-file" date="/some/filename.mp3" /> My file does NOT stop playing after 10 seconds. This is weird given that <action application="set" .. /> is doing exactly the same thing as session:setVariable() ... right? My question 1. What could be the problem with application set? 2. Is there a way to automatically stop playback after a certain number of seconds for a file? (without doing tedious things like create a separate 10second version of an mp3 using ffmpeg etc.) Thanks, Sidharth -- Sidharth Kshatriya www.sidk.info