Of course due to the limitations of ID3 the empeg will not support tags such as tempo but this can be accomplished by nested playlists

I feel I have to point out that this is most definitely _not_ due to a limitation of ID3. ID3v2 has tags for beats per minute, equalization, relative volume adjustment, synchronized text, synchronized tempo codes; basically, any information you'd ever want to attach to a piece of music (see www.id3.org for more info). The problem is, nobody _implements_ ID3v2 correctly, so you never hear about these tags being used. :(

If the authors of the encoders and players which are out there would just use the features which are already part of ID3v2, instead of making people play with "custom tags" and such, everybody's music collections would be a lot happier.

I know that Emplode understands ID3v2 now (internally, at least :) - perhaps, in the future, the Empeg people could support the use of some of the more useful, less well-known ID3 tags (though I imagine it won't be a terribly high priority).

-Dan Zimmerman


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Daniel M. Zimmerman
Caltech Computer Science
dmz@its.caltech.edu