Thanks for the quick reply
I don't tink the serial port project is a goer (I think at the time I was looking for an excuse to do something and thought it would be cool to be able to change the noises of the alarm from the empeg!)
The other project would require something like lame to encode directly onto the empeg's drive effectively adding new tracks. I'm sure there's more hurdles adding to the database and encoding a fid, but I'd still be very interested if anyone has compiled lame for the empeg.

Cheers!

Rob