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In order for a CD burner to work effectively, it must buffer large amounts of data and be able to stream that data continuously to the burner without any hiccups. That means it must have a lot of RAM and a lot of processing power, something that the empeg has neither of. Also, the IDE controller on the empeg isn't built for speed, I think it would have trouble reading from the hard disk and streaming the data to the CD burner at the same time. On top of that, you'd need to port burner software to ARM and such, since there's no software of that kind on the empeg.


Tony... Go out to your living room and look at your Rio Central. That was practicially an empeg last I knew, possibly even the same IDE controller. And it does burn CDs of music just fine, though a bit slow compared to todays standard.