Hijack will not play from nested playlists, because I don't want to do recursion within the kernel

Cool, no problem.

I dunno why some of your artists don't show.. how about you look at the tag files (the /drive0/fids/*1 files) and make sure the "blank" ones actually have the "artist" information filled in.

Wow, cool... I didn't know you could pull up the ID3 tag info like that... Anyway, I just double checked a couple of those artists, and the ID3 info is all there. I've been pretty anal about making sure all of that info is always filled in, and as far as I know, there isn't a song on my player that doesn't have the ID3 info. ok... some of them have the incorrect year or genra...

Hmmmm... now that I think about it, I know that all of the songs have all of the ID3 info filled in, but I'm not sure about the playlists themselves... Maybe the artists I'm having trouble with are pre-emplode 2.0beta synchs or something... I need to investigate further...