I've had a search through the archive for the answer to this question, but couldn't find it, so apologies if this question has been asked a lot before.

I have a Mk2 empeg, that I bought from a friend years ago (6 maybe) and since then have added a few songs, but not upgraded any drives in it. It did have 2 drives at one point, but I started to hear cracking and popping during playback in the car and in the end one of the drives failed. That was a long time ago. In the last couple of weeks I've heard the same sort of sounds again. I'm now concerned that the second drive is on the way out (or maybe whatever caused the first drive to die is about to kill the second). Either way I need to get the music backed up pronto, because I don't have the original mp3's (or indeed CD's) to most of the music. Having looked around on the board I have found the instructions on how to back up the data (using FTP software), but I notice that it will be .fid format not mp3. Is there anyway to convert the fid files to mp3 so that I can also drop them on my ipod?

Any help would be much appreciated.