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This release comprises three different versions of the car-player
software:

* Standard Edition (car2-*-v3.00-alpha11.upgrade)

This is the successor to v3.00-alpha10, and is the one most users
should install.

* Japanese Edition (car2-*-v3.00JE-alpha11.upgrade)

This build contains glyphs for the JIS X0208 subset of Japanese
characters, in the larger font only. Because of this, the menus
and the "Info: Track" screen have been changed in the Japanese
edition to use only the larger font. Due to the increased size
of the font data, this edition is recommended for 16Mb (and
above) players only.

* Receiver Edition (car2-*-v3.00RE-alpha11.upgrade)

This build turns your car-player into a Rio Receiver-like home
audio player, capable only of playing audio content from a network
server, not from its own hard disks. You will need Rio Receiver
server software running somewhere on your network. Consult the
release notes for alpha 8 Receiver Edition for more details.

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Awesome! Thanks Peter!

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Slugginess is reduced to only a few seconds. Great!!!

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It's not said in the release notes, so would you mind saying whether this is just built upon previous alphas or is it from the active karma/(rumored H4) branch including all of the other unspecified fixes like the early alphas did?

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And a reminder to those who have customized some things:

(1) If you use my ethernet upgrader utility to install v3a11, then you won't need to reinstall Hijack afterward, and the upgrade will happen much more quickly, as well.

(2) If you don't use upgrader, then the upgrade will overwrite Hijack, and you'll have to reinstall Hijack over (slow) serial afterward.

(3) The .upgrade file still includes the plain anna-vu visual, so you may want to redownload Tony's mucho macho vuback.raw into /empeg/lib/visuals to replace the default.

(4) If you are a fan of set_empeg_max_fid.v7 for dealing with LARGE playlists (including the down down down master shuffle), then you'll need to FTP it to the player and run it again after upgrading to v3a11.

(5) Any third party apps (such as empire and irattach and libopenobex-1.0.so.0) will probably need to be reinstalled after upgrading.

(6) If you have a largish ReserveCache=nn value in config.ini, you should substantially reduce it, as v3a11 now incorporates a hefty internal default for this. On my own 32MB player, I am using ReserveCache=32 now, which is still a lot, but going down to 0 increases the read-ahead stuttering too much for my liking.

It all seems to work great!

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And a reminder to those who have customized some things:

(1) If you use my ethernet upgrader utility to install v3a11, then you won't need to reinstall Hijack afterward, and the upgrade will happen much more quickly, as well.

(2) If you don't use upgrader, then the upgrade will overwrite Hijack, and you'll have to reinstall Hijack over (slow) serial afterward.

(3) The .upgrade file still includes the plain anna-vu visual, so you may want to redownload Tony's mucho macho vuback.raw into /empeg/lib/visuals to replace the default.

(4) If you are a fan of set_empeg_max_fid.v7 for dealing with LARGE playlists (including the down down down master shuffle), then you'll need to FTP it to the player and run it again after upgrading to v3a11.

(5) Any third party apps (such as empire and irattach and libopenobex-1.0.so.0) will probably need to be reinstalled after upgrading.

(6) If you have a largish ReserveCache=nn value in config.ini, you should substantially reduce it, as v3a11 now incorporates a hefty internal default for this. On my own 32MB player, I am using ReserveCache=32 now, which is still a lot, but going down to 0 increases the read-ahead stuttering too much for my liking.

It all seems to work great!

Good points.

I prefer the "Sancho's Edit" of the VU visual because the screws are more random.

Another thing to reinstall is the .xml file from Mark Cushman.

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The following tuner settings can be tweaked in the config file, in
the "[radio]" section:
"search_level", defaults to ((60*65535)/100)
- min signal strength to stop on when seeking
"ta_switch_level", defaults to ((60*65535)/100)
- min signal strength to change to if there's a TA
"af_switch_level", defaults to ((50*65535)/100)
- min signal strength to consider retune for AF

Thank you empeg guys!

I'd like to clarify my understanding of the parameters here... For instance, am I correct in thinking that the default AF level is equivalent to "af_switch_level=50"?

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...what's left before it becomes beta?