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First of all, everytime I power on the empeg it takes several minutes to build the the music database before I can play anything. Is that normal for everyone?



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Secondly, when I try to use the new emplode with it, emplode coughs up an error almost immediately while trying to read the database from the Empeg.




Sounds like your DB got hosed somehow - on each start the player now has to read all the fids off disk and build the DB in memory. But since the drives are mounted read-only it can't write the resulting DB to disk - thus hving to do it all over again on the next boot and it still being hosed as emplode tries to get it...

Here's the FAQ on the issue, with instructions on how to fix it. Do read the linked entries as well!
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/Michael