Hi Dignan,
I've been following your questions and the anwers here that suggest you use the empeg playlist feature, but I think that -- although playlist maintenance through emplode is easy -- it cannot do what you want. With emplode you can group the albums or tracks into anything you like easily and give them a name and bingo: your personal playlist structure is there. Very simple and intuitive; powerful and very well thought out.

I guess that the problem with your MP3s is that they are poorly documented and that you need to listen to them before deciding on the playlist they belong to and that you want to do this while driving. Though empeg allows you to search for tracks and thus allows you to create a playlist on the fly, this will not help you as this capability requires meaningful tags, which you haven't got. Also, the empeg can't save dynamic lists.

As you don't have an empeg yet, I suggest you start re-organising the tags of the files on your PC. I use TagRename for this. Once you've got used to its UI, it is a fairly powerful utility. I like it because, besides a load of other things, it supports a.o.:

- filling in tags from file names
- renaming files from tags
- batch edit of any or all tags for (selected or all) files in a folder
- a tag editor that commits the edit and moves onto the next file of a folder quickly (very nice; I'd wish emplde had something like this)

Have a look at it. You can download from http://softpointer.com



Henno
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