Sometimes you need to install a binary on your empeg. In my case, I wanted strace.

It’s been many years since I last connected my empeg player to a Linux PC, and the muscle memory’s gone. Here’s how to make it work with Ubuntu 20.04.

Background

In response to this thread on the empeg BBS, I hacked together a couple of small tools for the empeg car player.

The last couple of entries have shown the hex dumps of the individual packets. We’ll step back to a slightly higher-level view now.

The next packet that the empeg sends is the actual response to the OP_STATFID request. It looks like this:

We’ve seen the format of the packet that emplode sends to find out the length of a file on the empeg (OP_STATFID). The empeg seems to always send a progress packet in response. The packet looks like this:

The format of the packets in the empeg’s TCP/IP protocol owe a lot to the fact that the empeg mk1 communicated over a serial link. This means that there’s a certain amount of cruft still in the protocol.

If you’ve ever gone looking for the music and playlists on your empeg, you’ll find them in the /empeg/fids0 and /empeg/fids1 directories.

Over on the empeg BBS, tfabris said:

The sequel to Partitioning an empeg’s Hard Disk Manually.

If you’re attempting to upgrade the hard disk in your empeg, and the disk builder is not working for you (this is often the case with disks larger than 60Gb), then you might want to build your new disk manually.

I’ve been playing around with learning C#. Today, I thought I’d write a C# program to find empegs on the local network.

Introduction

You can send the empeg player commands using the serial port. This is a list.

Problem/Context

Introduction

Grab a copy of rsh-client from the debian archive.

Some stripped down utilities for the empeg:

Note that this only applies to v1.x car player software. v2.x uses a different error numbering scheme.

emplode v2.0 adds the ability to search your music database. It provides two methods of doing this: simple searches (which are hopefully so simple that I won’t explain them here), and advanced searches.