>Ah, good. I mention it because sometimes people will come here and spout
>off pie-in-the-sky ideas without any real notion of how to get the job done.

Haha, that's me. But hey, I'm only ever just trying to spark people's interest. Ah, ya never know.

My pie-in-the-sky idea about USB is this:

Connect the Creative Labs Nomad MuVo to the empeg.

That way, the empeg could be your digital hub for all your in-car and portable music needs. Write some software to speak to the MuVo (windows drive mapping?) and control the USB Master ability (if needed). Then, support for other players (Sonic Blue players) could be developed. That way, the empeg could truely be the music hub for home, car, and portable players. Not to mention that you could reload tunes on your portable while at work or wherever your empeg is.

Possible? I don't know. Pie-in-the-sky? From me, of course! Interesting, I hope so.