1 - If I am using Emplode and I delete some "tune" by selecting it and hitting the DEL key, is the actual MP3 file removed from the HD on the empeg? If that file is referenced by more than one playlist what happens? If its only referenced in that one playlist what happens? How can I make sure it gets cleanly deleted?

2 - Is there a way to determine if there are any orphan MP3's using up space on the Empeg HD? Is there a need to detect this? Does the Empeg perform any kind of cleanup procedures to locate this files and eliminate them?


If a track is referenced from more than one playlist it is only physically deleted from the empeg when the track has been deleted in all the playlists it is in. The empeg software goes to great lengths to avoid getting orphan tracks. Occasionally you can end up with some, but they then appear in the "Unattached items" playlist in the root of the player (only visible from emplode).

3 - If I have a particular "tune", and its ID3 label says the song title is "ABC", by artist "XYZ"... And then I drag and drop another MP3 from my PC onto Emplode that has the same tune and artist names...what happens? Will the MP3 file be replaced by the new one? Will there be duplicates of the same song? What uniquely identifies songs? Is there any kind of "replace" feature with Emplode and sync...or is it always assumed that I'm either deleting by selecting tunes and hitting the delete key...or adding new ones...and if they happen to have the same names in the ID3 tags...then so be it?????

No it won't be replaced, you will have two different copies of the tracks. Emplode and empeg does not "know" that the two files (and hence tracks) are the same.

4 - when I update the "tune properties" using emplode...I'm editing what would normally be in the ID3 tag. At least that's where the Empeg gets the information to begin with, but it appears to get stored in the Empeg database as well (stored in both places). So when I edit these values in Emplode and do a sync, do the actual ID3 tags of the actual MP3 files on the Empeg get updated, or is just the Empeg database updated?

Once the files are on the empeg editing their properties in emplode will only change them in the empeg database. You need to make sure you complete the mp3 tag values to your satisfaction before you upload them.

5 - Near the end of the sync when the emplode dialog says something like "Updating database", what is happening? is it rebuilding the entire database based upon MP3 file ID3 tags, or what exactly is happening?

It is building some sort of database on the player that is based on the properties of all of the tracks and playlists as they are on the harddisk on the player. It is not based on the MP3 files on your PC.

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