Ok, I guess when the ID3v2 tag support gets put in, it should be able to build playlists by whatever criteria you want. My previous example was not too good. How about if I want to play fast rock, or fast techno, or slow country (ya, right), but whatever, or maybe fast rock by The Tragically Hip, or slow rock song by females.

All those things you described can be done right now, and it doesn't depend upon V2 tags. You can build playlists however you want, with any songs in them you want, arranged any way you want. The only thing is that you can't do it while you're driving the car. And you wouldn't want to anyway, because it would involve staring at the screen and punching too many buttons on the remote.

I understand that MMJB allows you to do that sort of thing, but remember that it's got the benefit of a full GUI, a keyboard, a mouse, a high-rez screen, and no fear of crashing. (Well, okay, a different kind of crashing.)

Until you've actually used Emplode and the Empeg, you won't realize just how easy it is to set it up to your tastes. And you'd be surprised how rarely you actually want to create an ad-hoc complex-criteria playlist. More often, you're just shuffle-playing a larger playlist based on your mood, and enjoying the spontaneity of not knowing what's coming up next.

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Tony Fabris