OK, I've been playing some more and I have the following wishes to add to my list:

1 - I could really do with a 'Search by playlist' search. OK, so maybe I've organised my tracks in a funny way, but being able to search for "Good female vocal" or somesuch would be nice, rather than have to trawl through the entire playlist list to find it.

2 - I'd really really like to be able to sub-search. I'll give you an example of why. I was showing the Empeg off to a woman at work who said "OK, have you got any Bob Marley on there?" I said "Of course" (well, words to that effect), did a search by artist and there he was. Before I clicked 'DNPP', she asked to see the list of tracks so she could pick from that. The only way I could do it (unless I'm missing something here) was to play the playlist, put up 'Now and next' and then skip through them. Not ideal.

I'll give another example. I've got lots of Jean-Michel Jarre albums. Each album is a playlist within a parent 'JMJ' playlist. Now, I want to listen to a single track, but I can't remember what it's called, so I'd like to select 'JMJ' from the artist searchlist, then be able to scroll through all the tracks by that artist to select the one I want to listen to.

Now, I'm guessing that people are going to say that I should be able to remember track names. Please don't. The words and tune of a song I can cope with remembering, but like people's names and faces, I draw a blank with track and album names.

Another thought occurs to me here - This would actually be even more useful for virtual playlists - e.g. search by Genre. Without playing the playlist, how do I get a list of all the tracks I've got with an 'Acid Jazz' genre tag?

3 - When uploading a directory as a playlist, if a track filename has a track number (e.g. "01 - In the flesh.mp3"), then that track number should be used to place the track in the correct order in the playlist. Most of the directories I drag/dropped worked correctly, but a few put the tracks in an unaccountably strange order (note, I'm not dragging a list of tracks - I know about the Windows 'feature' in that respect. I'm talking about dragging a single directory which contains a stack of MP3s).

I think that's about it for now!

Nick.



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