If you can FID or script-FID the player, then I can see the beginnings of speci,alist off-empeg control programs.

I think you take the empeg not as a computer, but at face value -- hardware that plays music... then indeed, you can argue that some of this stuff "belongs" in the kernel. (yeah, the argument is weak because there are alternatives for functionality placement ). In any case, given that "playing a song" is associated with the hardware, then you could wrap that with some HTTP compatible control mechanism and create firewall friendly, network friendly, web based software that leverages the box pretty easily.

Calvin