I've skimmed through the old bug reports and I didn't see any of these, but I may have missed them.

Anyway, I have not yet gotten my empeg installed in my car and have instead been playing around with emplode a lot and using the player to play music through my stereo whilst I do other work on my computer (hooked up to outlet via AC adapter, to stereo through RCA to CD, and to computer via Ethernet). FYI, I’m using the latest beta.

Emplode:
1. Crashes every so often when changing song tags. About once every 500 or so changes. I have not noticed any pattern, it just says it has a fatal error when I click apply. I’ll try to copy the exact message next time I see it.

2. Bug about updating flags for wendy filters. I have a tag for each track indicating its bitrate. I also want to do additional flags for songs I don’t like, certain genres, etc. Each track is going to have several flags. Here’s an example of how this bug works. I have some country songs all with a flag for high bitrate. I want to flag them as country as well, so I select them all and go to properties. The box next to High Bitrate is checked, and I check country also. Everything works fine. Next, I want to put a flag on some techno songs. They are mixed with all different bitrates. When I select them all and go to properties, all the boxes with bitrate flags are unchecked. I check techno and apply. However, it has now erased all the bitrate flags on those songs ?!?! Thus, any time you select tracks in a group with heterogeneous flags already set to add one additional flag to all of them, it erases the original flags.

3. If I try to add a large number of tracks to the empeg at once (say 100), it gives me an error after a dozen or so saying that errors occurred. When I check the errors, every song after a certain point says that it could not synchronized. This has happened to me about half the time I’ve tried to add large numbers of tracks at once (maybe 5 of the 10 times). I’ll try to get more data next time.

Player:
4. The player crashes about once an hour. It will just stop mid-song (sometimes with a very short duration chirp, sometimes not). The visual also freezes. After 3-4 seconds?, it will start to reboot. As soon as it finishes (5-10 seconds?), it will resume playing the song at a point a couple seconds before it crashed. It never happens in the same song twice, or at the same points in the songs. Sometimes it will happen at the beginning, sometimes, the middle, sometimes the end. Some songs are low CBR, some high CBR. It doesn’t seem to favor quality-encoded songs over ones that pop and crackle, or one genre over another. Sometimes it will go for 3 hours or so between crashes, sometimes only a couple minutes.

5. Reboots every time I cycle through info when I get to the graph of the loudness of the song (I think this is a known issue).

6. Can only have one wendy filter on at a time (I suppose this is a feature request). I would dearly like to be able to have several filters on at once.

-Biscuits