This is what I think I have decided to do for now. Since all mp3's are in mysql I'll write a perl script to select * mp3 with mp3Id > 12345,.. where 12345 is the highest number synced with the player. Only problem is I'll have to experiment with the emptool (which has the upload command in it) because it is no a "command line" tool perse,.. but more of a command shell,.. with no apparent way of controlling it in a batch fashion. If worse comes to worse,.. I'll make my update script just dump out the upload commands to use in emptool and while in X windows running the emptool I can just copy and paste the commands. Anything less than a few hundred commmands and I guess it should be ok. But man will it be hokey,.. it'll have to do all the cd (change directory) and mklist commands seperately since when using -r (recursive) upload, all bets are off when the directory already exists on the Rio.

Thanks, Aaron Newsome

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