Quote Originally Posted by sundance

Because a lot of people (including me) want to use just one database for their music collection. IMO support for MP3 is mandatory for an audio database, but other formats are important as well. And easy to implement, since you'll only have to deal with just 3 or 4 different tags (ID3v1 and ID3v2 is already implemented, so if APEv2 is added, most of the work would be done).

I'm not sure what's common for music and mp3.

Seriously, there are so many issues with regular media (Audio-CD), that mp3 (and also OGGy, Monkey's Audio, MPC and FLAC formats) related problems may have lower priority.

Moreover, in my mind, there are totally different requirements for catalogue mp3 trax. So, it is much better to use specialized application to do that.

Ayot (A man from mp3-less environment) ;D