strange happening with my empeg

Hmmm... strange. Ok, today I was driving along listening to the empeg on random (this is what I do most of the time) It was on song 224/1142 about midway through the song. I got to where I was going, turned off the car, and went inside. When I turned my car on again, the empeg started playing song 214/1142 about midway through. It took me a second to figure it out, but I was quite surprised to see this. Has anyone else seen this happen before?

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mk.II 12G amber

Yes, this exact thing happened to me last week After stopping to visit Costco, it skipped back must have been about 20 tracks or so at a guess. I thought it was really strange too. I've had the player since around October last year and this is the only time it's done it. I thought I was losing my marbles .

Marcus (beaker)
32 gig (various colours)

This is covered in a recent thread in Bug Reports:

déja vù: empeg plays the same song twice

This question has officially now been asked frequently, so I'm going to FAQ it.

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Tony Fabris

I've often had it forget the exact position within a track after powering down but I've never had it skip back any tracks, particularly as many as this. I didn't think it was the same problem.

Marcus (beaker)
32 gig (various colours)

I've often had it forget the exact position within a track after powering down but I've never had it skip back any tracks, particularly as many as this. I didn't think it was the same problem.

It isn't the same problem.

Currently, it can't remember its exact position within Variable-Bit-Rate files. This bug will be fixed when version 2.0 of the software is released, as it will use a more VBR-friendly decoding engine.

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Tony Fabris

I knew about the VBR problem (the vast majority of my files are VBR), I just thought that the 'not enough time to write before there isn't enough power left' problem gave exactly the same symptoms. I thought it would just lose it's position within the track it was playing. I wasn't aware that it would forget which track it was on. I'm surprised the player doesn't store the FID of the current track after a few seconds of playing it. Anyway, it's only happened to me once in almost a year so it isn't a major hassle.

Marcus (beaker)
32 gig (various colours)

This will be fixed in 2.0, as in it will save state when it enters standby mode as well as on total power loss; this should mean that mk2 owners who don't pull their units out of the dash when the unit is on (display on) should never see this problem.

Hugo

Good to know - thanks Hugo. mmm... can't wait to get my hands on 2.0 and of course the Tuner .

Marcus (beaker)
32 gig (various colours)

yes this started happening to me when I upgraded to 1.03.. thought it was my player

Well thanks for the feedback. I suspected that the reason that it skipped back was that it didn't have enough time to save its position. Glad to know its not a hardware problem.

mmmm...2.0...

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