a relevation just cale to me. i haven't tried to search if this was mentioned before, but for the ~year that i've been frequenting this board, it hasn't been mentioned.

if we use both the LAN port AND the USB port, similar to a dual WAN load balancing router, we can effectively upload tunes 1.75x faster (guesstimate). each acts as an independent channel. one track on eth, one on usb, keep it load balanced, and at the end, rebuild the database. to reduce back-and-forth hdd head movement, reserve each hdd for a seperate channel on dual drive systems.

what it would take is a rewrite of (j)emplode and probably the player software to accept more than one connection to use both at once, and i'm not sure if there would be any USB limitations... but if there is, the usb-ethernet emulation project would take care of it, right?

comments, ideas, or attempts to blow this pipe dream away welcome =)