While the gold star is nice and all, I guess I still don't get it. Am I the only one seeing this behavior? I know lots of people have posted that they have trouble syncing, but they're running stuff from the music partition, and when they move it, it appears to be okay for them. Other than the curse on me, is there any reason why this would be happening to me and not others?

I think they're just being good little soldiers and closing emphatic before they sync.

First, there are command line options for horizontal and vertical mode; how about one for the custom mode?

There is. emphatic -m 3. I forgot to add it to the README but it's there. If you're so suited for QA work, I'm assuming you would have tried that!

Another thing: you said the next version would hadle milliseconds, right? Does lrctool already handle milliseconds in the SYLT frame writing, or does that come later, too?

Yeah, lrctool 1.0 supports it. I forget if the lrc2sylt included with emphatic v1.10 has millisecond support, but lrctool 1.0 definitely does. Untested though...

And one more: --newfid seems to only look at the new fid structure. If you have things in the new way, emplode will still write songs in the old way, so you'll soon have a mix of old and new. Is there a way to make --newfid look for the new fids in addition to the old fids?

Umm... Nobody told me that supporting a mix was required. That's a dicier issue. I was going for quickest access time, so I didn't have it trying both. Again, being a QA guy, you're familiar with what happens when requirements are incomplete, no?

I'll see if I can come up with something next time, but this isn't very high on my list. I kinda thought people would use the one FID structure, then when the new one becomes the default (in the next release, I guess?) they'd switch. Having both seems kinda yucky to me. Thanks for pointing this out though.