Empeg mk1 working slowly

Yeh!

So, I have a mk1 (again mentionin' about it) and two HD's, 6GB and 20GB. There's about 3GB free on the player.

I have Hijack 33x or 32x installed. Empeg software 2 final.

Problem is that my player is slow. For doing the down-down-down, it could take ~5-10 secs to play. That's a long time to be w/o music incar d=/
Another thingie is the remote, trying to search the right artist / tune and there's a slight pause after each letter. So typing 'Garbage' with my instant-typing-sms-oriented-fingers and I'll see only 'Ga' on the screen, and slowly the rest of the letters are coming from somekind of cache..

Meepmeep! Normal activity or a software issue? Anything to be done?
No, I don't want to solder an extra block of RAM on it d=/

Thinking about upgrading the HD's to bigger ones, but if the database gets too large on these...

Are you running any third party programs from the @EXEC feature of Hijack?

No.

There was ynot's emphatic running a month ago, for a week or so.

well, maybe I'll check the config.ini once again.

Here's the end of my config.ini

[ir_translate]
00B94604=20df04
[output]
notify=1
[emphatic]
button=menu 00b94615
button=left 00b9460c
button=right 00b9460d
[hijack]

[shuffle]
deduplicate=1


Can't remember what the ir_translate is for, and as far as I remember the emphatic sections remaps didn't work. They don't make any load, do they?

Remove the following lines:

00B94604=20df04

notify=1

button=menu 00b94615
button=left 00b9460c
button=right 00b9460d


See if that fixes it. Is there anything else of note in your config.ini we should see?

notify=1

umm, i thought this was used to something i need? what could it be, can't remember. I remember emphatic needed this, but since I'm not using it anymore..
What else needs that?

What else needs that?

Certain third-party programs need it. But as you said, you're not running any. So check and see if removing it fixes the problem.

Ok. This is the end of my config.ini now:

[aux]
source=
title=
artist=
[ir_translate]
[output]
[hijack]
[shuffle]
deduplicate=1


Dunno, maybe the downdowndown is a little faster, maybe not. I'll see it next time when I'm driving around and fiddle w/ my remote

Thanks Tony!

Dunno, maybe the downdowndown is a little faster, maybe not.

Down Down Down is always slow for a large database. That's normal.

It was the other problems you listed that I was thinking might be solved with removal of the Notify.