I'd be willing to sacrafise 1/2 the disk space for non-loss compression formats.. maybe the empeg guys would add support in 1.1 for gziped wav files. .. emplode could scan the wav file, gzip it, make the proper database entries for track length.. maybe it could be similar to linuxcare's block-compressed system.. break it into 16k blocks, gzip each block, and stick a header at the begining to tell it where all the chuncks are. (for random play)

I have specific tracks that just don't compress well.. even when i turn on 192-256k high quality..


12gig green mk2 -- 080000125