The Empeg Car player software depends on a very tightly-controlled set of files and database entries to manage its playlists and play songs. It also depends on being able to load those files into a proprietary caching system. It's entirely designed around all of those files being stored on its internal IDE hard drives. There's nothing in the player software that would allow it to include network-mapped drives in its song database.

So it would take a complete rewrite of the player software to be able to do what you're asking.

Hm, perhaps it would be possible, for a bet, to run smbmount on empeg, symlink manually a couple of MP3 files into /driveN/fids/NNN0, write NNN1s by hand, and hope that database rebuild will recognise them.... But yes, if one actually wants to use PC as MP3 repository, Rio Receiver is a way to go.

Cheers!

Dragi "Bonzi" Raos
Zagreb, Croatia
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