Thanks for the help guys, I think we are getting somewhere. (Although I am afraid I am new to this API and I don't know what the SOM is) I have yet to experiment with the hidestreamid paramater. I had gone through the documentation looking for relevant paramaters but found none. I have played about with the Java API in debug mode and produced the following code: List<AlbumEntry> albums = new ArrayList<AlbumEntry>(); for (GphotoEntry entry : entries) { GphotoEntry adapted; try { adapted = entry.getAdaptedEntry(); } catch (Kind.AdaptorException e) { throw new DBFileException("Kind.AdaptorException:" + e.toString()); } if (adapted instanceof AlbumEntry) { include = true; XmlBlob xb = adapted.getXmlBlob(); if (null!=xb) { if (null!=xb.getBlob()) { System.out.println("Found something: " + xb.getBlob()); } } if (include) { albums.add((AlbumEntry) adapted); } } } This gives an output of: Found something: <gphoto:albumType>InstantUpload</gphoto:albumType> Found something: <gphoto:albumType>ProfilePhotos</gphoto:albumType> Found something: <gphoto:albumType>Buzz</gphoto:albumType> Found something: <gphoto:albumType>Buzz</gphoto:albumType> Found something: <gphoto:albumType>Buzz</gphoto:albumType> As you can see all my normal albums don't appear at all (they do not have this blob) My InstantUpload, ProfilePhotos and Buzz albums have this tag. I am intrested in knowing what the correct way to access the album type and return it as a String. A Simple text analysis of this would work but would break easily when the API is changed. I would prefer to run an XPath query on the blob. This should still function even when the API changes. Can anyone advise on the best method to achieve this? Robert
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