The first thing you observed about rebooting the player when you bounce real fast between songs for extended periods happens because the Empeg player app freezes when overwhelmed with a back log of serial port commands to play. I put in a check in the software to detect this, which forces the Empeg to quit and restart and allows things to continue. I struggled quite a bit with this and that's the best solution I've been able to come up with so far.

If you just need to do this from time to time, a way to avoid it, and to switch songs way faster, is to Pause first.