Hey Mick...that sounds like the least time consuming way to do it. I was originally thinking I'd have to do one tune at a time anyways to import ABC to Finale(when i thought you could do that) so importing xml one at a time is fine. Know the name of the program to separate the abc files? Having to separate one tune at a time and then processing each one afterward was something I wasnt looking forward to.

It's a large volume so Finale is the only way the publisher wants to handle it.

ABC to midi and then importing midi to Finale just doesnt work well. I did tests yesterday with importing different formats (with different programs) and you consistently got perfect, clean files with xml while there was often need to clean up a file in Finale when it came from an ABC -> midi file regardless of the program you used. True you get better results with some but not good enough.