Actually, my main reason to get it hooked up this way is so that I can leave the empeg in the car permanently (safely attached in the boot/trunk) and use the remote on the dash.

Although this is possible (with an IR repeater), you don't get the benefit of being able to see the Empeg's screen. So the ability to do all of the things that make the empeg so great (alphanumeric searches, adjusting the 20-band equalizer, enjoying the visuals, navigating the playlist structure) is lost. About all that you can do is press prev/next track and adjust the volume. Everything else would happen blind, and you'd tend to get lost in the menus if you tried to do anything else. No visual feedback, you see. Imagine trying to operate your Mac without seeing the monitor, and you get an idea of what I'm talking about.

The Empeg was really designed to go in the dash.


Anyway, how the heck do you keep the base station going in-car? Connect it to the car battery?

Yes. The proper voltages to power the base station can be arranged with a little work. There's even a photo (in those CES pix in the General forum) of an AirPort base station on the parcel shelf of a demo car.


I actually ordered Virtual PC today... The JEmplode thing works, but I want to use USB.

Actually, I don't think USB works via VirtualPC. Just serial and ethernet. That's a VirtualPC limitation, not an Empeg limitation. (If I recall correctly. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.)

But USB and Ethernet are functionally equivalent as far as Emplode is concerned, and Ethernet is actually a tad faster. And I'm glad you ordered VirtualPC because now you can apply software upgrades with the serial port.

Um... I think. Does she need some kind of physical adapter to plug the serial cable into the mac?


It's confusing 'cos I'm easily confused, that's all...

No, you don't sound confused. The fact that you got JEmpeg going means you're heading in the right direction. So have you been able to get any songs loaded onto the Empeg yet?


Man, this thread is gonna make great FAQ fodder when things are all sorted out. Thanks for being our guinea pig.

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Tony Fabris