Twinkletoes: Thanks for your excellent survey and assessment of existing N800 media players, with which I find myself in fairly complete agreement regarding their various strengths and weaknesses.

I myself settled on Kagu awhile back, principally because it was the only one to incorporate Milhouse's a2dp hack (so I could use my Bluetooth stereo headphones) but for other features of Kagu I liked as well. Now, of course, there is not yet a viable a2dp hack to work with the N800 media players (including Kagu) so the playing field has become a bit more level for me in my assessments of their relative suitabilities for my needs.

Since my recent $20 (plus shipping) purchase of a mp3 a2dp dongle, which works fine with my stereo Bluetooth headphones with all the N800 media players, I find I am still leaning towards retaining my use of Kagu. Although I am still very frustrated over all the wrong album covers it turns up, even though the correct covers are readily available, either on-line or already incorporated into the album information I've ripped.

While there are other features (or lack of, to be more precise) in Kagu which I've otherwise complained of in this forum, my main concern now is that Kagu may be in the process of being abandoned by its developers. I'm hoping this perception of mine proves not to be the case.