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I can't imagine why anyone, "just work" type or not, would want to use an alpha

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The same reason anyone would want to be an alpha or beta tester for any product. In this case, to help the empeg guys test it, to reports specific results, so that future releases can fix those bugs and be stable enough for the general public.

Also, you might want to be a tester because you want to see new features before everyone else does. In your case, that feature was Ogg playback.

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You left out a pretty significant part of my sentence, which was "I can't imagine why anyone, 'just work' type or not, would want to use an alpha that can't reliably do something as crucial as file transfer."

My point was that essential functionality shouldn't require outside testing. Moreover, if basic operations don't check out, then that prevents the testing of everything else in the new release.

That's just a perspective that I've developed after twelve years of releasing commercial software for multiple platforms.

Elsewhere in this thread, I was informed that Ethernet transfer is jacked with 3a3 (or perhaps emplode 2.10). I didn't see any mention of this in the release notes. I might try a serial transfer (I'm using XP Pro, so no USB for me) just to see if that is indeed my issue.

Thanks again for your prompt replies.