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All of the other issues are much easier to live with. There's the songs getting marked problem that's been mentioned before. There's the song name being changed to "various" on occasion, this has also been mentioned before.

Those don't sound too bad.

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And every now and then I have a problem uploading songs, and the connection dies. It's on occasion been a bit of a pain to cleanly recover, needing to get in via telnet or the serial port to run fsck.

Yuck. I don't like the sound of this. I can do it, but I'm lazy. I'm now in the Apple stage of my computing -- I just want it to work (says the guy that runs custom kernels on obsolete hardware).

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And there's been a few issues with emplode.

Those don't bother me, since I only use jEmplode.

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Hydrogenaudio.org and rarewares.org are the best resources for ogg stuff,

Ah, useful links. Thanks!

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including hints about reccomended versions and pentium 4 compiles.

Hmm... pentium 4? I wonder if they have any hits for pentium MMX (409 bogoMips, baby!), or a 64-bit DEC Alpha?

I guess my last question now (not necessarily directed at you, but the thread readers in general), is, what are the ramifications of upgrading, and then deciding to down-grade back to v2.0final? My search-fu suggests it's just as simple as just flashing the previous image again. If that's correct, then I guess I'll toss on 3a8, and play with it a while before I decide about Ogg.