Maybe others can confirm this, but I have had problems connecting the empeg reliably with USB. Sometimes the player isn't detected by the Emplode software.

My work-around is to open up the empeg Clone Tool and detect the player. Close the Clone Tool and go back to Emplode. Wow, magically the player is detected. Well, maybe it's not magic, but it seems to work for me.

Ethernet is way better than USB - and faster!

Glad you got it going.