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oh and I forgot to add, iTunes has nothing on emplode/jemplode... Emplode and jemplode are way more intuitive and IMO have much better interfaces.

But you already knew that.

I disagree. Both emplode and jemplode are fantastic programs, but neither seems to support unicode properly. This puts iTunes on top IMHO. And to be honest, the interface in iTunes seems FAR more intuitive for the way I work. This isn't a slam on emplode / jemplode, just a matter of taste really. I'd be curious to know how you feel it is less intuitive, though.

I've never had iTunes crash while uploading music (because I forgot to rename the mp3 to something with only western characters) causing me to wait for 2 hours while my iPod checks its discs and rebuilds its database 3 times, either.

I would be thrilled if RMM had empeg support, as it correctly handles unicode and I have never experienced problems while working in it. Until then (ie. from now on) it's likely that the music that is currently on my empeg what will be there for the forseeable future. It's just too much of a pain putting music with non-western tags on it.

Don't get me wrong; I'm forever appreciative for the Japanese-capable empeg player software, and I think (as I said) that emplode / jemplode are amazing programs. They just don't do what I need them to do very well. iTunes, on the other hand, does EXACTLY what I need it to do.

Now who wants to figure out how to use iTunes for the empeg?