I just wanted to say thanks. to JoeyB 1275 and TheSaint. I have been using and modifying this au3 for years now, working it in to a few projects. Since the latest autoit upgrade I had to update to the latest id3.au3 version and subsiquently update most of my code. When i was done updating my most used project i realized that i had to only change a few lines of code and comment out almost all of my mods and additional functions. through my experience with this i have learned a lot about the file structure used for mp3's and it comes in pretty handy when my boss gives me a file and asks why it does not work with our system. i can just hex edit the thing and bring it back to life or tell him that its thoroughly thrashed with out any doubt. I know i don't post here much , but i have been using autoit since 2006 when a big name company(can't say) handed me testing process with autohotkey. I found a better way of doing things with autoit....saved the day, and have loved it ever since. so once again. Thank you.