I've been away from this board for such a long time, I've forgotten everything...

I have a broken Empeg (free to good home in the For Sale section, along with the tuner) and would like to grab all the music off the hard-drive.

I'm sure I can remember doing this many years ago - I just put the drive in a usb chassis and then used "something" to grab the music... this might have been in Linux or Windows, I can't remember...

Any ideas?

Cheers,

AJ.

You can almost certainly get someone to pay you for the tuner.

And you should be able to get a 2.5" to 3.5" IDE cable, put it in a usb sled and mount the drive on any machine which can read ext2 (linux is simplest but i believe both macos and windows have utilities to help you; solaris also does but it's not reliable)

You will be able to pull the raw files off using ext2 as mentioned above in a linux machine, but they won't have any file names (they will be FIDs instead), so you'd have to rely on renaming them afterwards using the ID3 tags - assuming they are tagged correctly.

Yes, the music is just loose files on the empeg's hard drive.

However they are not named in a nice convenient easy to read scheme. They are simply a large list of files with hexidecimal numbers for the file names. The only way to be able to tell which songs are which would be:

1. Pray that you had tagged the files properly before you uploaded them to the player. Then use a tags-to-filenames tool like MP3 Tag Studio to change them to a usable format.

2. Listen to all the songs.

3. Connect the drive to a working Empeg and use Jemplode to grab the songs off the d...ownloaded files.

4. Write (or find -- surely someone has done this already) a small script that reads the *1 files and renames/retags the *0 files accordingly. Sort of like mp3tofid in reverse.

Peter

I had a small python script for that somewhere... Of course I can't find it right now

#1. i've done this, works fine if you have pre-tagged before uploading. i use "tag and rename" which will also rename the files for you. very handy program.

#3. i've done this too, works great! in your case, you'll have to find someone with a spare working empeg to do this. Otherwise, option 1 is your only shot, and will work just fine if your files were tagged before uploading to empeg.