Hi.

This is not entirely true. I guess the /empeg/var/database file should be decodable, if one tried to do so (I might try this some day, but certainly not this weekend). empeg people might even be willing to leak the database fiel format if one asked really politely.
From what Hugo said on this BBS (don't know in which thread, sorry, but it was in the past 7-14 days), the database is mainly plain concatination of the song/playlist infos. It still is binary though.
The static database (/drive0/var/database) is available for the download tool (my memory is fails again as to who did that tool) as FID 3, the playlists database (/drive0/var/playlists) is available as FID 5. Also available is FID 4 which should be the dynamic equivalent of FID 3, which means the database that the player actually has in RAM. This might be different from the one stored on disc (FID 3) when the player has rebuilt its database while booting (it rebuilds it to RAM only, the static database is only stored during sync).

cu,
sven

proud MkII owner (12GB blue/green/smoked, was #080000113 is #090001010)