It seems to me that simple feature to save dynamic changes (additions through search and, perhaps, deletions) to playlists on empeg itself (together with naming the list if it is brand new) would both satisfy DiGNAN's wish and be relatively easy to implement. Then again, perhaps some reorganization of disk partitions would be necessary (we would not like to remount main music partitions R/W while driving, would we), so maybe this is not so trivial, after all...
Regarding ID3 tagging a pile of incosistently named miscaleneous tracks, I would use some command-line tagger utility, prepare a command file from the dir listing with default assignment of both artist and track title from the filenames, and then do some editing directly in command file. (That's the way Unix addicts to things :) I guess you could prepare command file at a rate of some 200 tracks per hour (if you know what is in the files, of course).
Cheers!
Dragi "Bonzi" Raos
Zagreb, Croatia
#5196
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Dragi "Bonzi" Raos
Q#5196
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