On 01.01.2008, at 18:15, Bill Steele wrote: >> tell app "finder" to get info for choose file >> >> don't give album and artist out of my mp3s. > > That's not info *about* the file; it's part of the contents, > something called ID3 tags. Versiontracker lists several utilities > for managing such things, including one that uses them to create > filenames. > -- Hi Bill, Hi folks I want to script it for several reasons. I know the details about id3 tags and managed to decode them by a script. But my scripts have some problems with embedded covers so I wanted to use what the Finder shows in the get info dialog. The Finder shows artist, year and album from mp3 files. So I hope there's a way to "steal" this information... cheers, Sven