i spent a good three hours checking out all winamp plugins and regular controls.. and it seems that the plugins that say they can, dont.. and the normal winamp functions do not include playlist skipping. devilbio can you elaborate? you're saying set up a hotkey to actually load the .m3u? i think i know a few programs that monitor folders and their files maybe i can think up something. thanks though i never thought of it on a .m3u file basis.