Well, with the audiobooks, I know that if I actually worked on it, I could condense the ones with 99 files per CD to something smaller, and basically clean and rebuild the player so that it did not have that many FIDs on it. But it does not clear the problem.

Basically, it seems that emplode launches the database rebuild, but that some error is passed or something happens where emplode thinks it finished insanely quickly. It then moves on to the next step (writing player configuration) and fails with a timeout. While all this is happening, the player is rebuilding the database files, but never actually succeeds in writing them to disk, even though it goes through without a sign of an error.

In all honesty, I have not played the most recently added files much. When I tested with a few random known "last files", though, it seemed to work okay.