I dunno about you my empeg never takes more than 7 secs to boot.

I would be very interested in hearing details about your 7 second empeg!

When I first got my empeg, back in the 1.0 software (and earlier than that!) days, it would boot in 8 seconds. As I got more and more music, and later and later software, boot times got longer and longer, until now it takes 15 seconds to boot.

Mine is a single drive (18 GB) player with no third party software: 2.0b13 is the only thing on it, plus 1623 songs/audiobooks/etc with a total play time of 378 hours. (170 hours of audio books, most of them recorded at ridiculously low bitrates)

What boot times to other people get, and if less than the (apparently) normal 15 seconds, how did you achieve it?

tanstaafl.