I for one would be willing to pay for updates. I too have lost the excitement I once had of knowing that my player would continue to progress from the software that runs it.

Assuming that there are a couple thousand Empeg owners and assuming that their would be 1000 others like me who would be willing to pay about $10 for an update, that would spell $10,000 to motivate the developers.

I may be off on the numbers, but you get my idea.

Just my two cents.