Mmm.. okay, I suppose some folks might want that.

But for me it would be totally impractical to have MicroSoft hosted image backup/restore.

(1) I don't run MicroSoft products, except for Emplode inside VMWare under Linux.

(2) Image backup of my 18GB player would take about 12 hours (assuming 30% efficiency at 10mbs over ethernet). For folks with large collections the number would be much higher.

I suppose a smarter incremental solution could be good, backing up only that which has changed.

But best of all is still to just keep the music collection on the host system in the first place, and backup the playlists from Emplode (can it re-import CSV playlists?). But as folks customize their players more and more, a full filesystem backup (with increments) begins to look better..