For strictly backup purposes ftp-ing everything in /drivan/fids directories to a large and cheap disk is good enough (with perhaps a script or two to allow for incremental backups).

If one wants, a scripts could be added to apply *1 tags as ID3s in tunes themselves, and prehaps to rename them. Then something like MusicMatch Jukabox, MoodLogic, DigitalDJ or similar can be used for playing from the PC. More adventurous users could recreate their favourite directory structure (preferebly using some kind of links). But the point is, empeg remains 'master', anything else is backup.

Now, keeping several non-empeg sources in sync and treating them rather than empeg as masters will be a bit more difficult.