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Yes, the disk always spins up when you go into the Playlists menu or the search screen. But that's because it's hopefully going to take you at least five seconds to choose what you want to listen to, so it can start getting music off the disk instantly once you've chosen, rather than waiting five seconds then. The menu appears and is usable long before the spin-up completes.

It's attention to details like that which is why you bought an Empeg in the first place



To be honest, its attention to detail like these that I was hoping I would be getting in the product when I bought two of them...

...I wasn't disappointed.

Its details like that why I bought another two during the firesale.

Its also a lack of attention to those details, why perhaps some of those other (but admittedly, sometimes, cheaper) products don't sell so well.

Thanks again for being so forward thinking - I wish more products were like my Empeg.

It is however a pity the Empeg and RioCars don't have a ton more memory in them that we could use to cache this sort of thing internally in RAM.