DId anybody get a chance to try this? I am curious if that solved all the problems.

I use airport to connect to the internet, and an ethernet cable to connect directly to the empeg. I let OS X and the empeg just auto-assign their own private IP addresses on ethernet when they both determine there's no dhcp server on that ethernet network.

With this setup, the previous version would not detect my empeg, even though jemplode would (sometimes, at least). I could down the airport interface and then it would work just fine.

With the new version, EmpMenuX detects the empeg 100% reliably.