Tried searching for this on the forum, but couldn't find any mention of it.

I've just upgraded to v3alpha8, and am finding that every time I boot the player, it spends about 3 minutes building music databases. Is this normal?

Also, when I try and connect with jEmplode, it starts building music databases within the application, and then it just stalls, and never lets me get to the main UI. Is this also a known problem.

Thanks,

Andy.

Yes, it is normal for the player to try to build music databases when you switch to the alpha since it uses a different database file. Please see this FAQ entry, as it applies exactly in your case.

Hi Tony,

Thanks for the quick reply, but I'm not sure that this is the problem that I am seeing.

If I look into /drive0/var, the only file here is config.ini.
There doesn't appear to be any database, tags or anything else for that matter.

I'm currently running an fsck, as I did get a warning here, so will repeat the procedure for deleting the databases etc. once this is done.

I'm only running on a single drive at the moment, so the /drive1 stuff doesn't apply.

Andy.

You must have skipped the part of the FAQ that says you need to synch once with emplode, and that the delete/rebuild procedure is only needed if that fails.

Note also that it's very specific about saying "Emplode".

Nope. Didn't miss it.

Whenever I try and sync with either emplode or jemplode, then it gets about a third of the way through, and then hangs.

I think this could be down to my hard drive cable, which has been causing some interesting symptoms of late. I'm only using the end connector, which has been stable up until now, but I guess it could be causing problems.

In any event, I've got a new one on order from Stuart, so will wait until it arrives before I come to any definite conclusions.

Thanks again for your help Tony.

Andy.

Hy there... just tried out the alpha 11... i have a empeg car(not labbeled with riocar) player with 120GB space, and got the same problem, i cant with jemplode or emplode not "rebuliding databases" i got the following error message with jemplode..:

Failed to download the music database from the device. caused by:
Communication with the device failed or was rejected. caused by:
Unable to open connection to device. caused by:
org.jempeg.protocol.ConnectionException: Failed to connect to the specified device. Please verify the device's IP address.
at org.jempeg.protocol.SocketConnection.open(SocketConnection.java:149)
at org.jempeg.empeg.protocol.EmpegProtocolClient.open(EmpegProtocolClient.java:359)
at org.jempeg.empeg.protocol.EmpegSynchronizeClient.download0(EmpegSynchronizeClient.java:154)
at org.jempeg.empeg.protocol.EmpegSynchronizeClient.rebuildOnFailure(EmpegSynchronizeClient.java:559)
at org.jempeg.empeg.protocol.EmpegSynchronizeClient.download0(EmpegSynchronizeClient.java:201)
at org.jempeg.protocol.AbstractSynchronizeClient.download(AbstractSynchronizeClient.java:170)
at org.jempeg.manager.SynchronizeUI.download(SynchronizeUI.java:177)
at org.jempeg.manager.SynchronizeUI$2.run(SynchronizeUI.java:155)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

Ist there a problem with less memory for the new playlist structure? what can i do? i heard, that some players (especcially the empeg MKIIa players have less memory then the riocars) not can manage the alpha soft..

thnaks for help..
greets

I had this problem due to my reservecache setting. I know I posted about it when I had the problem.