> The database isn't really suitable for maintenance via ftp, nfs or netatalk when it comes down to it.

Is this true? Not counting uploading actual tunes, I've been doing
a fair bit of database maintenance by tarring up all the small files
in /drive0/fids, and transferring them to my linux box. There
I have some perl scripts which modify the files to set up the appropriate
play lists. Then I just sz them back again, and get the empeg to
rebuild the database.

This allows me to have a backup of all my playlists on my home machine, which
is very handy, because every now and then, during a sync my empeg
gets confused, and all my tunes end up in Unattached Items.

I haven't yet gotten everything so that they look up track names
correctly, but that's not far away.

After a bit of work, the perl scripts could reasonably easily be
made to run as cgi scripts, with input from forms.

Richard.