It is true that nowadays outfitting an Empeg with many more gigabytes than before is possible, and inexpensive. But it requires opening the Empeg, wiping a drive, several software reinstallations, many delicate IDE cable connects/disconnets, and then hours+hours+hours loading music. Maintenace is also a big deal as it has to be done indepently for each Empeg.

Would have really been nice to just keep one organized copy of music in a server and have all Empegs benefit automatically from updates, play Flacs, etc.

Truly, the Receiver Edition is the best thing that can possibly be done with the Empeg (for networked home use), *IF* a server supporting hierarchical Playlists is available. Hopefully Peter will finish the port of his software to Win32 and change things for us that live in the non-Linux world...