I just wrote a program that toes exactly what you want to do. First I opendir() the directory then I readdir() the directory into an array. Finally I used foreach $file (@files) to process each file at a time

The file I created scans a directory for mp3's and extracts their running time using MPEG::MP3Info

It doesn't recurse subdirectories but that shouldn't be too hard to impliment by checking file attributes for the directory value. (at least in Win32) <code> #!c:\perl\bin\perl.exe use MPEG::MP3Info; my $file; my $out = '>>playlist.txt'; open (OUTFILE, $out); # replace with the directory containing the fines you want # does not recurse subdirectries $directory = "D:\\"; opendir (DIRECTORY, $directory); #read the file names into an array @files = readdir(DIRECTORY); #extract data from each file foreach $file (@files) { #is the file an mp3 if ($file =~ /.mp3/) { #extract info from mp3 using MPEG::MP3Info my $info = get_mp3info("$directory$file"); #get minutes and seconds my $minutes = $info->{MM}; my $seconds = $info->{SS}; #if seconds = 0 to 9 if (($seconds =~ tr/0-9/0-9/) == 1) { #set seconds = 00 to 09 so they print correctly $seconds = join ("", "0", $seconds); } #remove .mp3 extention from file name and print along with time