the point is one software less!

Nah, either way you would still be using jEmplode. Either to import an XML file and do the actual sync or behind the scenes as a sync engine to do the actual work (with iTunes handling the UI). I can kind of see the point if you let iTunes actually maintain your music files (store them in it's directory structure under your home directory). I wonder how many people actually do though. I have all mine on my server in a directory format (Genre/Artist/Album/Song) that mirrors how I want them on my empeg. That way they are accessible by my roommate and any other software that I want to use with them. So every once in a while I just re-add the top level directory to jEmplode and let it figure out the changes and handle the sync.

So mschrag, how modular is jEmplode at this point? Could it be used just as a synchronization library without any of the UI or ID3 stuff (putting aside for the moment if it would be worth the trouble)?

-Mike