Many of the best features are made possible because of the Empeg's database.

I agree completely, and I think you may have missed my point. I was not suggesting any changes to the empeg's DB, just a new way of adding songs. Whenever you drop your mp3 on to the empeg mounted as a drive, the empeg would receive the file copy and use the ID3 tags on the file to populate the existing database. Basically the same way emplode does now, but with an interface that everyone is familiar with (their OS's native file browser).

Most of us would still want a tool like emplode to do after the sync database editing and configuration of the empeg. The USB drive thing would just make it dead simple to get files on the empeg at anytime with any computer.

-Mike