Amarok will read mp3's ID3v2 tag, but not ID3v1. Any library you guys could think of that I might be missing?

oh and the other thing is that xmms will read them

We use TagLib. See what version you have, 1.1.1 has no problems that I've seen.

That fixed it up. Thanks for the help. Now I just need a fix for the track numbers problem. I don't really feel like sorting through the code and fixing it myself.