(already thought of that) I could do that, but I'm guessing that I have probably around 100 or so albums that the id3 tags are screwed up on (I have over 40 gigs of mp3's here). I'd rather not have to manipulate that many seperate folders. I was hoping there would be a way to run something on the empeg that would clear all those rectangular characters out of all the id3 tags.....