Hmm, maybe I'm the minority, but so far I'm having relatively few problems with the alpha

I'm with you, it just stops dead from time to time - mainly on Otis Redding tracks, for some reason! It no longer handles MP2's , which is a real problem to me, as I like to load 7 or 8 hours of radio programmes a week, it's a bind having to re-process them to 3's. But it really doesn't give me much grief.