But none of that matters, it's empeg's call

Yup. The thing is, they have never expressed an opinion on the BBS about this issue (apart from an initial "we need this because of the alphabetic shortcuts"). That question came up at the US meet. My memory of exactly what was said is getting a bit fuzzy but it was basically Rob acknowledging that non-alphabetical ordering has been requested on the BBS and Hugo saying it won't be in 1.1.

I find it hard not to whinge continuosly about this (and a couple of other missing features - going back to the last place in the playlist tree and append of playlist without the remote) but I've decided to keep quiet at least until 1.1.

Borislav