Every five minutes or so it gives up trying to send a song and moves on to the next one.

I don't think mine is doing that... but maybe I haven't had the patience to wait, or maybe not the attention span to notice that it has changed to the next song. It seems like it just quits working -- the progress bar stops, and I don't notice any change in the name of the song that it (tries to) load. But, maybe I'm just not looking closely enough.

All the rest matches my symptoms exactly, right down to having to reboot to get emplode running again.

Sometime over the weekend I'll have that borrowed USB hub and I'll see if that changes anything.

tanstaafl.

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