Or because you may want to consider using directly flac files on your empeg when you get a large enough hdd

This sounded like a good idea to me until I tried uploading 16GB of FLAC files to my Karma over USB 1.1. I don't know exactly how long it took because I fell asleep before it was finished.

If only the empeg's USB was 2.0 and the NIC was gigabit....