Would actually be nice to be able to use Marks mp3tool on the empeg to strip out all that unwanted/space wasting data from the mp3s too.

Well, it is a Linux tool, so, in principle, why not? Memory footprint? One can add swap (16MB by default, I think; can Debian mkswap make swap in an ordinary file?). Of course, the things will become quite slow then...

Dragi "Bonzi" Raos
Zagreb, Croatia
Q#5196, MkII#80000376, 18GB green