Money.wav = 64.3Mb

That means a 100Gb worth of WAV files would take about 26 hours to compress, and a further 13hours to decompress it to WAV again. But you're right this is one way of reducing hard-drive requirements, but it doesn't deal with my particular requirements.

Although I wasn't planning in using the wav files as a listening source, I might consider using FLAC in conjunction with a Lacie pocketdrive as a possible mobile solution. Presumably there aren't any plans to incorporate FLAC support into the empeg? Mind you with ever increasing affordable hard-drive capacities, are we approaching the time when compression technologies will be just a footnote in history? Just imagine music files which don't need encoding, with endless debates about which encoder is best. Or DVD/Digital TV but without digital compression artifacts.