1. No emplode/other managing software

Well, I am not about to trade my empeg for one, but I have to say that not haveing to rely on something like emplode is actually a huge advantage. These types of devices are basically large hard drives that happen to have built in mp3 decoding. The more you can treat it like a bare drive the better. I think the ideal compliment to emplode would be a USB mounter that allowed you to treat the empeg like a USB hard drive (and automagically created the appropriate FIDS and database entries as you copied songs to it). Ideally the empeg could emulate a generic USB storage device and no driver would even be necessary for most operating systems. You could plug your empeg into just about any computer withouth extra software and copy music to it. I wonder if you could do this and make it 'write only' to keep the RIAA happy?

-Mike