When I get my empeg, if I want to transfer the songs to the empeg, can I transfer them from CD or do they all need to be pooled together before they can be transfered?

In theory, you can transfer the songs directly from the CDs to the Empeg. You can do it in as many or as few batches as you like. Just drag and drop the files from the Windows Explorer. The only thing is that you can't switch CD's in the middle of a file transfer. There's no function for having it prompt you for the next disc. So you'd just have to do it one CD at a time.

However, I'd recommend copying your files to the hard disk first, before uploading them. CD-ROM drives are notorious for having wildly fluctuating transfer rates, and the uploading software isn't particularly tolerant of such things. Has anyone else on this BBS successfully transferred a large amount of files directly from a CD-ROM to the Empeg? Did it work or did you get synch errors?


After the songs have been transfered to the empeg car and a week later I want to transfer more songs, does the entire collection have to be retransferred or just the songs you want to add?

Just the songs you want to add. The management software (called "Emplode"- cute name, huh?) is very efficient. It allows you to change and edit the contents of the Empeg interactively, and then "synchronize" those changes all at once. So, for instance, you can drag a thousand songs onto Emplode, rearrange them, rename them, edit their tag data, copy them into different playlists, delete some files, etc. Then, when you're all done with all that editing, you hit one button and it churns away at the Empeg making all those changes in one big batch. As part of those changes, it uploads whatever new songs you've added. Depending on how much new data you've added, you can either wait a minute for it to get done, or you can go have dinner and come back to it later to see if it's finished.

Something that's particularly neat about Emplode is that it doesn't require anything to be stored on your local computer. It gets all of its playlist and song data directly from the Empeg's memory. It's sort of like a "dumb terminal" for the Empeg. You can't even run it without the Empeg connected. What this means is that you can manage your Empeg files and playlists from any computer without having to worry about synchronizing the data between different computers.


I looked around, and couldn't really find any details on how the emplode software works. Sure would be nice to see an example of it in operation.

Darn- I just did a detailed, annotated screen shot of it for Doug Burnside in a private e-mail, but I don't have it with me to show you. Doug, if you're listening, can you send it back to me so I can post it here?

Tony Fabris
Empeg #144