Quick note before going to bed (after a very long day!). Latest snapshot compiled fine (glibc 2.3.2, kde 3.1.4, qt-mt 3.2) and md5 hashing went smoothly. I haven't yet stressed the new filesystem layer... By the way, are you hashing the whole files ? What about the very large albums ? Nice job blackie ! :) -- Dario Spagnolo http://www.zaup.org