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I thought I'd try to be clever so I set about creating these directories:
/drive0/var/database
/drive0/var/database3
/drive0/var/tags
/drive0/var/playlists


Those are supposed to be files, not directories. All you need is the /drive0/var directory.

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Emplode still crashes but now with 0xc0041015


Which is errno 21 (EISDIR). The player's attempting to create a file called /drive0/var/tags (or one of the others), but there's a directory of the same name in the way.

Glad you got it working in the end.
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-- roger