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's compiling the contents of the *1 tags into a static database (in /empeg/var). This static database is loaded into memory at startup (the disk is usually spun down).




Roger - not necessarily speaking for empeg