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

Bound to happen when you use ALPHA software.

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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?

YES. I got that error every single time I tried going from 2.0 to 3.0.

Do the databases fix from the FAQ (Linked in one of the replies above).


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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.

This will likely get fixed when you do the databases fix. Even if you go back to 2.0, you're going to need to do that database fix.

In my case, even after doing that fix, I had a problem in 3.0 where after a few synchs, all my playlists would get scrambled and a bunch of songs got orphaned. That's why I've stuck with 2.0 since then. But your playlists might not be as large or as convoluted as mine, so that bug might not bite you.
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Tony Fabris