Thanks for your reply, Britney. That path is actually the ISP's file system. So I know that the directory d:\websites\sampleDomain\mp3s\ exists on the server. I tested it by having my application read a .txt file saved in that same folder. And it works. I just can't seem to access the mp3 file. I don't know if I have to convert it to another data type in order to read it. Thanks for the help!