There's more...

I now find that the CDex created files lose their tags when being 'uploaded' by emptool, i.e. before any sync'ing is done. So it's emptool (and also exhibited by emplode) that is simply not 'seeing' the ID3 tag data. It's not the sync'ing that's the problem.

Just to confuse things further, JEmplode on the Mac manages to find the tag data corectly, on these same files.

Confused, I certainly am and would like to get to the bottom of this and get emptool's tag reading fixed.

Any ideas, clues etc?