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the player app continually restarts. The trouble is that I cannot now do anything with the empeg.

There is a command to get the player to restart an empty playlist here, and there is a command to manually fix the databases here.

One of those or perhaps a combination of both will get you back into a bootable state with the player. Please note that you might also have messed up your filesystem, too.
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Tony Fabris