ok, im brand new to vb and shooting for the sky. that said, im trying to write a program that will go through an xml playlist exported from emplode and draw numerous stats from it. play counts for albums, genres, fancy little charts, one armed men with darts. as much as i can pull really.
im sure that there is a correct way to do what im doing, but im doing it my way, mainly for the learning experience it stands to offer. i picked up a copy of vb5 about three days ago or something.
what i am doing this very moment is going through the xml playlist i exported and gathering the various tags and theyre meanings. attached is what ive got from it so far, my mind is starting to wander so ill gather more from it tomorrow.

the question, am i approaching the gathering of tag info in the right way, and can you help me where i do not know the meaning?

thanks for anything you can give,