It could easily be achieved through a web interface and/or FTP (though, you would lose the nice 480mbps USB 2.0 - and yes I know you don't get that, but it's certainly faster than the Karma's 10mbps). It could also be achieved through a driver (a la the driver you can get so Windows 2k/XP can read ext2). The fact is though, Rio just doesn't care enough to bother with that kinda [censored]. tehy have their software, it works well enough, why fix what isn't broken? hell, why fix what is?..but that's a whole other story. Corporate laws.