There has never been a JEmplode 1.02 - the latest JEmplode, available from http://www.jempeg.org, is version 1.0b1, released in February. It should talk to version 1.02 of the player software just fine (in fact, it should talk to version 1.0 and 1.01 as well, but 1.02 is current).

I'm not exactly sure what would cause it to stall on 'connecting to database'; if you send a note to [email protected] with more specifics (such as what model of Empeg it is, how it's hooked up, whether or not there's any console output, etc), Mike and I can probably try to figure it out. :)

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Daniel M. Zimmerman, Caltech Computer Science
Mk.2 #060000058, 36GB
Mk.1 #00101, 10GB