1 - "I'm thinking the reason that the rotary knob is on the right side is because the EC 6Gb is made in Britain, bastion of right-hand-drive cars"

Oh, for God's sake. It's an extra 6 flaming inches. Does it really matter? As a point of information, I use the buttons more than I use the knob anyway.

Calm down a bit, I see nothing in the review that says that it matters one way or another. It's just a bit unusual and they made a good guess why that might be.

2 - "The manager software missed some of the song titles I downloaded to the player"

More likely the tags weren't created correctly (i.e. user error). I rather suspect that if Emplode did this on a regular basis it would have been the subject of much discussion here.

It was.

A agree with your other comments.

Regards,
Borislav