Yes, the player now responds to all button presses including all menus and loads the software. I tried loading songs thru emplode but it errors out when trying to rebuild the databases. The player has v2.01 final (dev) firmware and I was using the v2.0 beta 13 version of Emplode which is the one currently hosted on Empeg. I'm not aware of the 2.01 version of Emplode. Other than the database malfunction I have all controls over the player. Just won't allow me to load songs because of the database errors.