Thanks for the reply, but the problem is that these are cd's that are mixes me and a friend made. so there are no records of them on the cddb. we burnt some of them and the song titles were saved when burning. but then when we burnt the rest of the cd's we forgot that we needed to have the setting put that setting on for each subsequent cd (dumb windoze) that's why i was hoping for an applescript solution. :) thanks Francois > You need to RETRIEVE the MP3 tags from the CDDB with=20 > the "ADVANCED" pull down menu that says "Get CD Track Names"