Since one or two weeks I'm experiencing a "stuttering" from the MKII when the next song is loading. This is not happening every time, but approximately at 3 out of 5 songs.

This usually indicates a hardware problem of some kind. Assuming that you haven't loaded any third-party software onto the unit, and assuming that the MP3 files are good files, then contact [email protected] as soon as possible.

As there is currently no possibility to backup my disks I'm getting a bit NERVOUS!

Since you can't retrieve the files from the Empeg, you can't count it as a "backup" of your MP3 files. Therefore it is always a good practice to keep a second retrievable copy of your MP3 files anyway. Either by leaving them on your PC's hard disk, or by backing them up onto some other medium (such as a CD-R or a tape drive) before deleting them from the PC.

When I lost one of my empeg's disk drives, it was merely an inconvenience because I still had all my MP3s sitting on my PC -- I only had to reorganize my playlists a bit.

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Tony Fabris