I expected emptool would be up-to-date

*cough*

I like emptool for bulk operations (like "upload -r *")

"upload -p -r", surely? By the way, as we're in the game of leaking Emplode 2.0 features, that's one of 'em.

is the database built from the 1 files? If so, is it possible to edit these on the player, then tell it to rebuild the databases, and get what I expect?

Yes and yes.

sort albums by track number (emptool puts them in random order)

That's a known bug.

and to build an automatically-maintained Artist tree.

Mmm.

Peter