Another problem I have noticed is related to the ID3lib library that Empeg use. I spoke with Mike about this back in October 2000, and he agreed that there is a bug in this library which causes mismatched tags when files are uploaded to the Empeg. Apparently, this library is used to convert the tokenised genres into text names (as they are stored as text once in Empeg land). The library simply gets it wrong.

For example, I have a fair few 'Heavy Metal' albums, and they are tagged as such in Winamp/MP3 Tag Studio. When you look at these tracks in Emplode, they are classified as 'Black Metal', even though Emplode has an entry for 'Heavy Metal'.

Mike said he would look into this, but didn't think it would get fixed any time soon (it doesn't appear to be fixed in 2.0 Beta 3).

Andy.