The way I sync with the player now is to watch the /proc/empeg_notify (By the way, could somebody confirm that this file is in the RAM of the player, and not anywhere on a HDD???).

I'm no expert on empeg programming, but I think I understand vaguely how this works.

Normally, if you put [output] notify=1 into the config.ini file, the music player application will squirt FID data out on the serial port.

/proc/empeg_notify, if I understand it correctly, is a Hijack-only feature. Hijack intercepts the player's calls to the serial port and stores them in a memory buffer, then exposes this buffer to the filesystem as a file called /proc/empeg_notify.

So technically, yes, I think that file is only in the RAM of the player, and not actually anywhere on the hard disk. It's also only going to be available if you're using Hijack and if notify=1 is entered into your config.ini.