If your immediate need is a tool that pulls tracks from the empeg, for backup, then you should be fine using the current version.
the availalbility of a full version depends on how much free time i have, so it could be a while.

there will never be a charge for it (not least because that would obligate some sort of technical support :), but I do mention a couple of charities in the README that you can send donations to.

call it guiltware.