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Doesn't look too insane... does it?

As for tracks... um.. 17367 according to a down down down. But even when i'm playing one 12 track album, it's still always spun up. Paul reports having no such problems on his empeg with over 100gb of music... but i think that's on a MkIIa... maybe that extra 4 megs makes that much difference? I've got some RAM chips... maybe i'll have a go at adding RAM after all.