I hope that a solution comes out soon that is really easy. I don't really care if the tags are updated, as long as a copy of the database is backed up to. Ideally, it would be great if it were stable enough that I could backup my empeg to my PC harddrive, completely re-format the empeg, and then restore everything back to the empeg (maybe after installing the player software) from my PC backup and have it be just like it was before I started.

I'm not much of a hack, and even just finding the displayserver took me a full day of searching through links and searches on the board. Even then, I wondered if I would be able to figure out how to use it.

I realize that empeg has legal issues to worry about, and I realize that whoever wrote the displayserver is going WAY out of his way, but it sucks that someone has to be a hacker inorder to make a simple LEGIT back up. I have no interest in dumping all my music to a buddy's machine - I just want to save all my work. If my empeg got stolen, I'd be more worried about the data then the $1300 (by a thin margin maybe! :) ).

Also, why not just back up to an IDE harddirve? They are so cheap now that one drive could be used to back up an entire empeg. Just don't load any software on it (have it as an F: drive or whatever) and you really wont have to worry about it failing.

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