So it sounds like something in the emplode<-->player path was causing the problems. Again, since it's closed source, our best bet would be to see an strace log of that happening.

The reason it keeping doing "media checks" is probably because we mounted the music partition read/write so that we could put the huge strace log there.

So, to get this trace to work, I guess we'd need to find somewhere different to put the log file. Like perhaps a second non-built drive, or an otherwise unused partition on the main drive.

This could get complicated to explain, though.

Cheers