These types of devices are basically large hard drives that happen to have built in mp3 decoding. The more you can treat it like a bare drive the better.

There are advantages to doing it Empeg's way. Many of the best features are made possible because of the Empeg's database. There are certain things you just can't do if all you've got is a hard disk full of MP3 files.

Agreed, database bugs and synch failures are headaches when they happen. But these are very rare, and the advantages we get from the database are worth it.

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Tony Fabris