A thought for the software gurus on this board (probably mentioned many many times): a tag editor that reaches into the empeg via serial port, mounts the drives r/w has tag editing capabilites (a-la many of those currently out there), then shakes the player's tree (so to speak) to make it rebuild the database? Lastly it issues the read only command.

No offload/reload/rebuild directories issues. I'd buy that for a dollar!

-Zeke

just say you weren't paying much attention...