diff --git a/scripts/play.php b/scripts/play.php
index 1e73cbf..c32c7d7 100644
--- a/scripts/play.php
+++ b/scripts/play.php
@@ -319,6 +319,12 @@ if(isset($_GET['filename'])){
       $confidence = $results['Confidence'];
       $filename_formatted = $date."/".$comname."/".$results['File_Name'];
 
+      // add disk_check_exclude.txt lines into an array for grepping
+      $fp = @fopen($home."/BirdNET-Pi/scripts/disk_check_exclude.txt", 'r'); 
+      if ($fp) {
+         $disk_check_exclude_arr = explode("\n", fread($fp, filesize($home."/BirdNET-Pi/scripts/disk_check_exclude.txt")));
+      }
+
       if($config["FULL_DISK"] == "purge") {
         if(!in_array($filename_formatted, $disk_check_exclude_arr)) {
           $imageicon = "images/unlock.svg";