I think the major stumbling block is the old USB master/slave thingy. I'm sure the software is do-able (the audio decoding being the least of our worries!). I'm afraid it's a case of the hardware being incompatable . If you wanted to go overboard you could always get one of those miniscule PC's (like Hugo's mp3mobile, except with a beefier CPU), run windows 98 and use the VIADAB API to provide serial control of the reciever. You could then write a program bound to a Hijack menu that would allow you to tune to an ensemble, pick a service, list all available services, etc. Although it is a 'sledgehammer to crack a nut' solution. I do have a liitle VB app that gives me control of all these things, I suppose I could bodge serial control on. All that leave is the C code on the empeg and I've only recently started getting to grips with C++ under win32...

Nurse, pass me my minitature PC and wavefinder please....