Jeez, my last post was three years ago?

Well, a 14233 song shuffled playlist just finished on Sunday, and I actually need to think about my car player. I haven't loaded a song, updated hijack, or even had the player out of the car since everything got shuffled.

What's the current preferred way to load lots of songs, preferably in the $artist/$album structure? Wasn't the emplode app a bit annoying to do that, and jemplode was much easier? Do either emplode or jemplode still run? (and what was the deal with the last three versions of jemplode, anyway?)

Now that I've put the player in a dock for the first time in years, it's not picking up an IP address. Isn't there some kind of hardware failure that takes out the nic, but hijack works around the bus problems and lets the player boot? What options are there to get the hardware fixed these days?

I don't even know where to find the usb->serial and null-modem cables anymore!