Roger,
Emplode's great for tweaking a few tags, but if you didn't get your tags straight before loading (this is not stressed enough in the documentation, which I did read) you'll end up redoing them on the PC then reloading. I don't think I'm alone in this experience (and not all that purchase the empeg see this board's FAQ's first). As drive sizes & music collections of the average user are growing, this becomes a less & less trivial task. If I read the tea leaves right it seems that Rio/empeg are trying to move from the early adopter group into a more straightforward retail niche (albeit a high end one). I think a more robust tag editor would help that mission. That being said, I don't know what's changed in the next version of emplode. I just think a need exists now and it seems that the empeg crew have a TON of stuff on their collective plates. Hence my appeal to the wizards of this board.

For current users a better tag editor would allow a better experience (for example wanting to go through and adjust a lot of genre or year tags). Offloading & reloading songs is a bit of a hassle and can lead to unintended multiple versions of a song.

I haven't seen the new Rio documentation (so if this is stressed better, please ignore my comments above). Another solution could be to bundle one of the existing PC based tag editors on the install CD so that new owners have the requisite tools to squre things away before loading everything up. Just a thought

-Zeke



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