Still progressing slowly on this front. I need to find my second empeg and use it to experiment with to see what is going to work well. 64GB on the primary unit should work out well for a while, as it has more free space then I expected. For some reason, the second drive had a nearly complete backup of all the fids off the first drive, I believe due to a fid reshuffle I did at some point to the newer subdirectory structure. If AAC->FLAC doesn't push me over 64gb quickly, this may be the best route for now to retain quality. Very little of the music I currently have is AAC, I mostly just want the future ability to grow that without tossing out the empeg. Step one though will be to upgrade to the 3.0 alpha to gain FLAC support.

I'll keep using this thread as a journal of sorts, and if I crank out anything usable, will post it here.