I like the Receiver and it's a good product.

However, if you need a notebook to DJ-select tunes on the empeg-car player, then the Rio Receiver will not be any better in that respect. The Receiver's user interface very scaled back and simplified compared to the empeg-car. There is no option to insert tunes into the current running order, for example.

For me, I think the Receiver is fantastic and I love it. However I am not a deejay and I do not use it to individually select tunes. I queue up a shuffled playlist and then just let it run for hours. Occasionally I might turn off shuffle and select an individual album or song. That's about it, nothing else fancy.

Since you seem to like using your notebook to select tunes, I have to ask: Why don't you just play the tunes from your notebook?