Typically I’d copy songs over to my player as and when I wanted them, and I’d just listen to them one after another, so I never found the lack of an ID3 tag a problem, additionally 90% of my music is titled correctly so I never had a problem. I admit, it would be nice, but I think it would take far too long to read the ID3 info.

I was more concerned with battery life, which this unit delivered in full.

What I’d like to know is whether this product really reads the ID3 tags in the mp3 files (i.e. artist / album / title info). It has a “browse by folder” function, but does that require a physical folder structure reflecting the album / artist? What if you just dump a load of mixed mp3s all together in the same folder on the player — will you be able to browse by album etc then?

Another question: it displays the file name (e.g. “10 – Whisper.mp3″) but does it display the actual underlying title / artist / album info embedded as ID3 tags in the mp3s?

Thanks!