tfabris: "...however the 1.03 emplode will not talk to the 2.0 player, so unless you plan to downgrade the player to 1.03..."

I doesn't seem that 2.0 Emplode will talk to a 1.03 player, either. I got a dead-end "the operation completed successfully" error when I tried to get 2.0 to talk to my "spare" Empeg -- until I upgraded it. I verified the same behavior on my Empeg #1.

I will say that one great thing about having a spare is that I can use my original for non-beta "production" while I inflict all the beta code on the new one. I'm also using the "spare" to completely redo playlists and such from scratch -- running MP3 Tag Studio on everything and cleaning up naming, details before moving them on to the new Empeg. When it's cooked I'm hoping I can clone it all back to Empeg #1

Oh, and version 2 is completely bitchin'