I really don't see what's wrong with just putting up Now and Next...?

Yeah, exactly that .

I've got the opposite problem. My girlfriend fell in love with my Empeg, not only has she hijacked about 2 Gig of space on it with her own (unique) taste in music - she insists on skipping through tracks in exactly the manner described!

She clearly needs a course in Basic Empeg Usage for Passengers. Wonder if Sonic Blue would do a remote-learning course

Because it would add 5 clicks or so... then you'd have to click back.

I meant leaving Now and Next up all the time.

press and hold down button > now and next menu appears
press and hold down button > now and next menu diappears

one extra button press
magic

Assuming that you're running with visuals enabled. I prefer the Track Info mode, where you can't do that. Or, more precisely, it'll switch between visuals and Track Info.

Have you killed it yet?

Just wondering if we should have a moment of silence in it's honor. You must be young, dumb and full of ...... (something).

I'm prepared to accept I haven't completely "settled in" with my Empeg useage (habits change).....

I use "Track Info" display all the time and but I'd like the Empeg to:
1. Show Now & Next during the last 5-10 seconds of a track -and-
2. What acurasquirrel said: Im not sure how possible this is but, it would be nice to when you are skipping through the tracks for the empeg to automatically go into now next mode so you can see what is coming up and then after about 5 seconds of continous play the empeg would go back to whatever info it was at.

- sometimes there are tracks that fit my mood better than others and they are not necessarily the 'next track' in the playlist so I'd like to skip over the ones I don't want to hear without hearing part of their intro(s).

Out of curiosity, have you tried your 'ribbon cable from empeg to display' idea? If you have (without buffering on both sides, induced spike and crosstalk protection etc), then saying 'the display broke' is similar to saying 'the display developed holes' after you shot it. There was a post here about properly done extension. IIRC, its cost was higher than original empeg's....

I meant leaving Now and Next up all the time.

Because then the artist, and source lines are not displayed, and I look at those all the time. A quick now and next would be awesome for browsing.

I must have found a keeper because she loves to skip and I dont mind it at all I just grunt when I like a song and usually she'll go back

I just grunt when I like a song and usually she'll go back

Mine doesn't do that last part.

"IIRC, its cost was higher than original empeg's.... "

And that was when the empeg was $1200!

WOW... Lots of replies. Its not dead yet but it WILL die under my Truck's tires!

DiE RiO CrAP DiE!
Crappy workmanship with a plethora of useless features for a premium price!

I don’t think I’ve seen a better example of someone who has more money than sense.

If I had a problem with my empeg(s) and decided I had no use for them, I would sell them on. I've already been offered £500 for my 10G by a desperate guy in a local computer shop (he said it would look great in his Skyline). So I know I could easily sell them, not that I would, because that would be insane.

So if you want to run your empeg over then you really must be a stupid as I thought, you might as well burn a couple of hundred dollars while you’re at it.

Anyway, rant over, if you do end up crushing your empeg, make sure you send us a video of it.

P.S. Before you have a go at the people who designed it, I would like to see YOU do better.

With a bit of luck he'll run his kids over when they do something wrong, and the world's gene pool will be that little bit richer.

Rob

Or alternatively, when he's putting it on the road, his truck could slip it's handbrake and save us all from the flamebaiter for good

What's really funny about all this is... some of you are actually taking him seriously!

C'mon, guys -- he's not gonna do anything silly. Most likely he is one of "us" under a funny name (remember Rex_Oah?) Someone's having a good time pulling your legs, and you're falling right into it.

tanstaafl.

I think a quick check of the customer service database should resolve that..