The V3 alpha is about as stable as you would expect alpha software to be. Also, it was built from an earlier branch of the code tree, so it contains some bugs that were fixed in V2 final.

FLAC also keeps the disk spun up a lot.

As neat as I think the concept of doing FLAC on the empeg is, I have to ask: Who needs lossless in their *car*? I could understand wanting high bitrate MP3s, but why lossless?