All of this is done using the standard 1.0 "emptool" from Empeg.
Too bad "emptool" doesn't support the newer .mp3 tags
like "emplode" does.. second class again under Linux.

Emptool 1.0 uses id3lib, so it should grok id3v2 tags just as well as id3v1. Emplode also uses id3lib to read tags, so the two should behave identically.

What exactly goes wrong when you feed emptool an id3v2-tagged file?

Peter