The protocol *does* let you get the database. For starters, it reads it as soon as you connect to the remote unit so you can navigate about in it.

The database is built from all the *1 files on the drive. If there is no database, the player rebuilds it by reading all the *1 files.

Basically, if you back up the fids directory (ie, all the mp3 files, all the playlist files, all the *1 files) then you have the database & structure in there.

Hugo