Yes, the music is just loose files on the empeg's hard drive.

However they are not named in a nice convenient easy to read scheme. They are simply a large list of files with hexidecimal numbers for the file names. The only way to be able to tell which songs are which would be:

1. Pray that you had tagged the files properly before you uploaded them to the player. Then use a tags-to-filenames tool like MP3 Tag Studio to change them to a usable format.

2. Listen to all the songs.

3. Connect the drive to a working Empeg and use Jemplode to grab the songs off the d...ownloaded files.