Mad_Mac

I've got nothing to say about your problem (as I have't programmed in Windows 7, nor do I use Strawberry perl). I just have a couple random notes:

• When you have a repeated clause in your SQL statement, if it can repeat a variable number of times, you can build the clause dynamically.
• I generally try to keep my embedded SQL stuff looking clean, so I would have added the leading and trailing '%' symbols in the call, rather than in the code. It makes the code a little easier to read (IMHO).
• You don't need to wrap a variable in quotes to use it.

So, I would have written it something like this:

my $SQL = q{SELECT SongTitle, SongPath FROM Songs WHERE };
$SQL .= join('OR', map { '(Songs.Artist LIKE ?)' } @inc_artists);

my $DBO = DBI->connect("dbi:SQLite:$mediaMonkeyPath", "", "")
            or die "Couldn't connect to MediaMonkey - $DBI::errstr\n";

my $STO = $DBI->prepare($SQL);
my $results = $STO->execute( map { "\%$_\%" } @inc_artists);
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...roboticus

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