DiGNAN: I don't mean to malign anyone's way of doing things, it's just that I find the remote shortcuts so useful and quick that it would be rather painful if I didn't have them!

Ah. And I don't use the remote at all in the car, except on those occasions when I have to change visuals to impress passengers (I don't use visuals at all, either :), so the remote shortcuts don't add any value for me. That's not to say they aren't useful for people who _do_ use their remotes, and of course I wouldn't advocate that the current way of sorting "go away" - just that a choice be offered.

Henno: A way to do this could be to use a dedicated sort field that is filled by default with the playlist name but which *can* be edited into something more meaningful . . .

Yes, exactly; and as it happens, ID3v2.4.0 supports sort keys for artist, album, and song title in ID3 tags, so as software starts supporting ID3v2.4.0, the "sort key" will be there for the using.

However, not only do I want to list "Phil Collins" under "C", and "The Police" under "P" (which I currently do by tagging them as "Collins, Phil" and "Police, The", which looks ridiculous on the Empeg's screen but does let me find them where they belong), I want to be able to sort albums in chronological order - or whatever order I want, really. I personally feel that if the Emplode user interface allows me to drag playlists around and reorder them, then when I turn on the Empeg I should at least have the option of seeing the playlists in the order I put them in; otherwise, I wouldn't have reordered them in the first place! :)


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Daniel M. Zimmerman, Caltech Computer Science
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