So I just spoke with US-Support regarding my dead Empeg player.

It started as a minor problem and grew worse. Basically sometimes it wouldn't boot. Other times it'd boot and play but after 20 minutes it'd fail and refuse to come back up.

Anyway, US-Support says that there have been a number of hard drives turning up as flakey. They're expecting a shipment of higher quality hard drives and will fix my player as soon as those arrive. I'll lose all my tunes but this time I'll have a better idea how to build the playlists and now I can upload from more than just win98.

Has anyone else heard this?

yours, Dean