It finally dawned on me this morning where the problem was. Everyone was talking about failures to download etc. when in fact the files were downloading perfectly. It was during the database rebuild phase that things were going awry. It failed to read the entire set of tags due to them being a bit large and totally ignored the file. The file is there, and once this bug is fixed you may find that a lot of stuff reappears (provided the space hasn't been reused by subsequent synchronise operations).

So, at the moment there's no need to drown our pitiful internet connection with huge MP3 files. This should be fixed in v1.01 when it is released.

Thanks to all that have reported it.

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Mike Crowe
I may not be speaking on behalf of empeg above :-)