but what i see is a mp3 player with some nice graphics when playing a song. but i paid already the full price.

I don't know what you bought... but I bought an in-car entertainment system with 600 hours of music capacity; a hierarchical playlist structure that allows me to find and play any of my 2000+ pieces of music instantly with superb sound quality; the possibility (no, the guarantee!) of future product enhancements at no charge such as voice recognition, support for additional file formats, etc; a powerful but understandable user interface that gives me unparallelled control over the operation of my player; built-in end-user tools such as a 20-band parametric equalizer and a "loud" setting that can be adjusted in 1.5dB increments; and I could go on and on.

You want FTP and telnet and God only knows what other weird Linux computer black magic thingies (sorry for being so technical here) -- did it ever occur to you to play music on your empeg? That's what it was designed, manufactured, and marketed to do. That's all I want it to do. And you know what? Considering its capabilities in that regard, I think I got one hell of a bargain.

The empeg is a music player that happens to be run by a computer. Don't think of it as a computer that happens to play music!

tanstaafl.

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