If you use emptool-2.00beta11 to upload an unadorned .mp3 (i.e. one
without any tags, in particular without a `title' tag) it gets created with
an empty title. This may be quite logical, but it does make it hard to
choose the invisible track from the empeg's playlist menu!

I assumed that in the absence of a title tag, emptool made up a title based
on the filename. I've even written scripts to talk to emptool which require
this behaviour---none of my mp3s have tags; the script uploads the music
and sets the meta-data explicitly using emptool using the filename to refer
to the file it just uploaded.

That got me wondering... maybe the title emptool uses does come from the
mp3 file---I just noticed that one of the test files I use does still upload with
title derived from the filename, while a couple of others come out blank.
I think the working one was encoded by a recent version of lame, while the
others were made with an ancient bladeenc. But mp3info and mp3tool both
agree all three files have no tags. So perhaps it is a change in emptool after all.

I assumed that in the absence of a title tag, emptool made up a title based on the filename.

That's certainly what it should do; blank titles are a bug. But none of that code has been changed for aeons. Are your filenames particularly long?

Peter

The files I used last night were test files with very short names (01.mp3, 02.mp3, 06.mp3),
but it's possible that I used relative pathnames for some of them (01.mp3, ../06.mp3) and
absolute pathnames for others (/home/robin/ftp/empeg/empeg-car/test/02.mp3).
I can't remember which did what now, but I have a record of it all in a scroll-buffer.
I'll check.