I'd like to downgrade my player from 2.00 to 1.03 due to inconsistencies in the music database so it can rebuild itself after upgrading it again to 2.00.

do you know of any source where I can download version 1.03?

I've found this description in an earlier post and it describes my issue quite closely:
"then the player hangs on the "synchronizing" screen,
I reboot the player, it then takes a LONG time on the "Building Music Databse" screen, eventually it boots, I then connect with emplode, it says "checking disk integrity" which takes a while. After which it boots, and says there were warnings, looking at detail it said playlist size is smaller than number of childs. So I do another Sync, it then works fine.
I then tried testing by uploading 1 song in a playlist, it threw up the same errors as above, rebooted and same situation, it did a "Checking disk integirty", took a long time. After syncing correctly, then deleting the playlist which error'd before, I resyncd

then:
Try doing a full downgrade to 1.03 emplode and player, then see if you can fix it by re-synching."

thanks for your help guys!

mk2 / serial: 10101721 / 40gigs

The advice about downgrading to 1.03 looks horribly outdated to me. v2final is as good as it gets for database stuff.

The messages indicate a corrupt playlist file -- not sure though. The playlist files are stored with the tunes in the fids directory, and are never affected by database rebuilds on any version of player software.

So, before you waste too much time with an ancient release.. have you tried just deleting the existing database files by hand, and then letting it do a fresh database rebuild after that?

The files you need to nuke are:

/empeg/var/database
/empeg/var/database3
/empeg/var/tags
/empeg/var/playlists

You can blow those away from FTP or a serial connection.

Cheers

The exact steps to rebuild the database files are here. Mark is right, downgrading to 1.03 will not help database problems in any way.

tony
mark

thanks alot for your hints... I'll try it today and let you know!

regards!
pi

thanks for your advices! everything's fine again!

the faq was an awesome help!

Aw man, and I really wanted to hook this guy up with 1.03!