yeah, i tried that, but i did try it again just to make sure. no dice. it's wierd. one thing i didn't mention was the way the file names appear. All the files have the original .mp3 extension AND the .xml extension at the end i.e. "filename.mp3.xml". IN addition, all these files seemed to appear in the their own sub-folder entitled ".Meta". Like i said, WEIRD. When i renamed the file by getting rid of the .xml extension, i got an error message stating that the format doesn't match the file extension. ::sigh:: oh well. Thanks for the help!