I run V3 Alpha 11 (with hijack) on one of my Empegs and I have sync problems almost everytime. It almost always dies when trying to update the playlist. My current method is to use Emplode 2.1 and as soon as I see it is taking too long to update the playlists, I reboot the Empeg. This causes Emplode 2.1 to cancel but not abort like the regular version. Once the Empeg has finished rebooting (takes awhile because it rebuilds the database). I just hit sync again in Emplode and it almost always works fine this time. I use V3 Alpha 11 because of the gapless playback. I am still ripping to mp3 because I cannot get ogg files to play all the way through without glitching once and a while and flac files always glitch. Mp3 files will glitch sometimes too but not very often.