No, I tried it with Ethernet. I checked the "Options..." settings and noticed it could only use Serial or Ethernet. I did have it set on Ethernet Broadcast though so just now I tried with a specific address and it found my player. It sat for 1 or 2 minutes retrieving tags then it said it was checking the player media and the Empeg screen showed "Synchronising" which I thought was a bit odd. Anyway I left it for a while and it then said it failed to check the player media and it started to retrieve the tags again. It did this for a while and then all I got was an unattached items branch off of the player root. No tunes or anything else. BTW this is with my old player with 2500 tunes on it.