Thanks for the info Hugo. What are the odds of the linux software compiling/running on the Empeg itself? To me it seems that this would be a way to get around a lot of these issues. Maybe mount another machines drive on the Empeg via NFS over ethernet and run the linux software on the Empeg to load the songs. It also seems like you might be able to come up with a workable web interface based around the linux tools running on the Empeg itself.

If the linux software goes opensource and includes the ability to add songs and do maintenance over ethernet, I may take a shot at a MacOS X (includes BSD layer) port myself. Assuming you aren't doing anything too x86 specific I would think that it wouldn't be too nasty. With that done, adding an appropriate GUI would be fairly trivial.

Thanks,
Mike

p.s. As far as funding development, give me a free MK2 and I will definately take a shot at it ;-)