Ooops. Sorry - I wasn't paying attention.

I currently run my empeg with 0x86f2[01] as the highest FID. There are a few tricks to getting this to work happily:

step 1) Sync as normal, knowing that emplode will crash anyway. The files are copied up, and the FIDs and supporting information is built correctly. The player will attempt to build the databases, but will fail.

step 2) Drop to shell on the player. Set the filesystems to read/write. Run fidsift.sh. This will rebuild the directory structure and move the files around on the music partition(s).

step 3) Set the filesystems read/write again (fidsift.sh resets to read-only) and run the player application from the command line. It will rebuild the databases and save them to disk.

step 4) Set all filesystems to read-only, exit shell and reboot.

While this may be crude, I have been doing it successfully for quite some time now, and I have been pushing the FID count to insane levels. I was also doing this long before the memory upgrade as well. The only trick there was that I enabled swap, just in case. I do not enable swap anymore...