Trevarthan (and Associates): I am concerned that you all currently are running out of steam and, in addition, perhaps relatedly, have resigned yourselves to giving up the N800 (and N810) media player field to the upcoming new version of Canola. If this is so, I (and perhaps a good number of others) find it quite upsetting. You have such a good product (of course, not without flaws) with excellent features, which could be significantly improved with probably not too much further application on your parts. (Easy for me to say, of course!)

My frustrations are over my current inabilities to edit and organize my album texts and playlists. Your organizing and listings of albums are apparently so dependent on initial id tags, which often result in seemingly arbitrary listings and itemizations. The "genre" addition to your last update is for me a disaster, as the genres accompanying albums are frequently illogical and thus contribute to rather useless genre categorizations, i.e., "Classical" and Classique" depending on the country and language of the album's origin.

In order to edit the id tags in an attempt to bring some order and rationalization to the Kagu listings, one has to go to external id tag editing applications, which for me are not all that user-friendly. And even then such editings are not always accurately picked up in the Kagu rescanning process. (And my genre renamings are never picked up.) Where there are inconsistencies in the album listings, I have attempted to create playlists which would compensate for these inconsistencies. But while I can edit the names of individual playlists by going into the MyDocs/.sounds directory, if I try to reorganize them by placing them in sub-directories under different genre categories, the Kagu scanning process apparently fails to pick-up these genre sub-categories, which results in Kagu crashing when I attempt to use the Playlist designated listing from within Kagu.

I do not wish you to regard the above "flaws" I am identifying in the current Kagu application as a total dissatisfaction with Kagu on my part. You have been able to make incremental changes in the past which have always resulted in significant improvements. I believe that the items I identify above, which I would like to see dealt with in future versions, are those which can readily be accommodated.

My best wishes for the future are with you all, as is my continuing appreciation for your fine product.