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Ehhh..kinda. The word 'empeg' in the title is totally misleading, that's a totally different brand and type of device.
You'd have to have a PDA or a PC to control it...it says there's an 'optional addon IR receiver' that can use certain remotes, but you won't be able to search for a specific track or artist etc. without the pda interface (which i assume you can do through the pda interface..). Also, the empeg can play FLAC, OGG, and any kind of MP3 you can possibly throw at it because it's all being decoded by an open source linux kernel...you will find that most of those 'keg' designed have an onboard chip for decoding mp3's that chokes hard on VBR files and resultingly they have zero support for any other audio formats. Plus the empeg can house 2 laptop harddrives of any capacity...200gb of music entirely possible, today. I would pay 100$ for a keg setup like that IF i already had a PDA *AND* i could look at the software and make sure i had all the same functionality as the empeg. You can modify playlists on the fly from the custom empeg remote, search by artist, genre, year, title, album, etc. with the remote and enqueue, replace, etc. to your current playlist... that device appears to only have "Play modes include all songs in album or directory, all songs on disk and random modes." which is nonsense...you'd be constantly selecting new songs. With the empeg riocar, I can make a playlist on the fly in the car, OR predefine one on my PC and just let it play through that in sequence, or in shuffle mode. I can tweak the list by expunging all tracks from the same artist, album, source, or year...i can shuffle the playlist, then re-sort it so that all tracks from the current tracks artist, album, year, source, or genre, are rearranged to be played next...but keep the rest of the list shuffled. After a few of that type of track i could change my mind and with one button expunge those types of tracks from the list...etc.
Tis badass.
