I am working on improved music management of the Empeg from Linux.

My own specific need is a way to have the Empeg "mirror" my massive
(8-12GB) music directory on my host (Linux) PC, including symbolic
links to various Genres from the original music (.mp3) files.

Add to this an auto-index generator for finding music faster on the
Empeg (the drives are MUCH bigger than a year ago..). Eg.

Playlists-->Artists-->F-K-->Heart-->Rock The House Live!

.. as well as a "random" playlist that automatically shuffles all songs
or just shuffles albums.

Most of this is up and running for my own system now,
as a pair of awk scripts (which can easily be attached to point-and-click
buttons under KDE or GNOME).

I just use the KDE/GNOME file managers to "manage" the music
collection on the (Linux) host, and then run the scripts to synchronize
and generate indexes on the Empeg.

This includes fixing up the song titles to full length, and setting
the Artist, tracknumber, and source (album) tags on the Empeg
based on the host machine filenames (rather than the truncated
tags within the .mp3 files).

All of this is done using the standard 1.0 "emptool" from Empeg.
Too bad "emptool" doesn't support the newer .mp3 tags
like "emplode" does.. second class again under Linux.

Does anyone else want this stuff?