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Hmm, Well I loaded up the latest 3.0 firmware. Some interesting wierdness. 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?

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.

That should all be in the FAQ somewhere. V3 software requires a very specific version of Emplode (forgot which). And the V3 software has it's own, separate, database format and database3 file (which can coexist with the V2 database file).

Since you only installed the software, there is no database3 file, so it creates a temporary one at each boot (disks are read-only, so it doesn't save it permanently).

If you just connect via serial, and then hit <control^C> (and wait..) you should get a shell ("command") prompt. At which you can do this to build a permanent database:

rwm
player
# wait for database build to happen / finish
<control^C>
rom
exit


That sequence (above) is also in the FAQ.. somewhere..