How good is Empeg Taxi?

In light of recent events, I've just ordered a Mk2a (I'll never call it RioCar anymore...). Anyway, I've got about 8 gigs of music on my Mk1(split over 2 drives), and most of it isn't backed up (at least not in the same place), so I'd like to copy all the FIDs from the Mk1 to the Mk2. I have no problem swapping in one drive at a time and manually copying the FID directories, but my question is whether this is my only option. I know it wouldn't REALLY void the warranty on the rest of the unit to temporarily put in a second drive, but have upgraders in the past found a better way to keep the same music without opening the case the first day out of the box?
Can I use EmpegTaxi to pull back the entire FID directories with wildcards from the Mk1, or do I have to set up a script to do it? Is there a transfer size limitation in EmpegTaxi?
Thanks,
Jason

_~= Dearing =~_
"WAY too happy about having #99."

There's a util that comes with emplode called "empegclone". This only works from a lower serial number to a higher one, and only with both players on USB.

It's slow, but it will clone your old player to your new one. It was written just for this scenario.

Hugo

This only works from a lower serial number to a higher one...

Greetings!

I also thought this was only from a Mark I to a Mark 2. Is this true, or can you go from a Mark 2 to a Mark 2?

Paul G.
SN# 090000587 (96GB Smoke)

Fantastic! I guess I never paid much attention to the original discussions of EmpegClone. Does it handle multiple drives -> single drive well?


_~= Dearing =~_
"WAY too happy about having #99."

Yes, it has no concept of drives, just FIDs - like emplode.

Hugo

You can go from mk2 to mk2, but beware that the datecode at the front of mk2 serial numbers is the wrong way round (month/year, not year/month) which may restrict your success.... it's a numeric comparison operation in empegclone.

I've cloned a 20GB player with v1.03's empegclone with no problems - it wasn't fast though.

Hugo

side note... the serial number thing...

could you clarify?

if my serial is 080000446:

08 is month
00 is year
00446 is the unit number in order of production?

is that how it breaks down?


|| loren.cox ||

empegTaxi isn't currently a good choice for multiple file downloads.
Maybe in a later version... =)

Jazz
(List 112, Mk2 12 gig #40. Mk1 4 gig #30. Mk3 1.6 16v)

Yup, that's it. Serial numbers are ascending, but re-started with 1 for the mk2s. mk2a's follow on directly from the mk2's, but are xx01's as they were all made in 2001 I think (don't remember seeing a 1200 for example).

Hugo