You know, there might be a really good compromise from a legal/piracy point of view: don't allow the empeg to export music files, but do allow it to export the playlist information. Would that work? That seems like such an obvious idea it must have been discussed on the BBS before, but I don't recall seeing it.

Actually, you can already export your playlist into a CSV format, and supposedly the emplode software (or future emplode software?) will prompt you as to the location of the music for restoring the music after a crash if you have that backup..
-mark

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