Beth, Thank you... The ultimate goal is to create the neatest slickest data structure of all mp3's found, that one could then sort (all elements, by any element), print, edit, etc... etc... This was my first attempt, I am very new to Perl, my first line of Perl was on 08/26/2009!

Any more pointers are surely welcome.

In reality no serious goal other than brain food!

This just happens to be something that I can make use of to learn with, I have a few mp3's :)

Thanks

-Enjoy
fh :_)~