Great job, empeg gang! Congrats on getting this software out the door!

My one remaining question is, does this signify a formal end to work on the empeg project? If so, 'tis a sad and joyful day indeed.

Yeehaa! I can't wait to d/l and try it tonight when I get home. Thanks guys. YOU ROCK!

-Zeke

I seem to recall another software release last year on April 1...

Yes, that's what I thought too at first, but this is the real thing!!!

It's installing on my Empeg as I type this...

So excited !!!!

yippie. just got to wait for a new hijack now

Noooo!!!! It is just so unfair



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Awesome guys!! I had a feeling something was going to be released today after the empeg guys pulling our leg last year.

hm, in reading through the release notes, I almost don't want this to be the real release. All this hype about the great new features that were supposed to be in 2.0 final, but i'm not seeing anything really. Am I just missing something or have I been misreading posts about new features expected in this new release?

OR is this just another April fools joke like that year? ( I hope so)

yippie. just got to wait for a new hijack now

I hope this update Hijack version comes quickly, cause now my lighted buttons aren't lit anymore.

But I'm sure Mark will post it soon!

All this hype about the great new features that were supposed to be in 2.0 final, but i'm not seeing anything really.

No one ever promised or even suggested that 2.0 final would have great new features. Version 3 probably will.

including cross fade maybe ?

I was thinking the same thing. Read the release notes twice to make sure it was real.

A thank you to everyone on the team!

does this signify a formal end to work on the empeg project

I HOPE it marks the end of development on the v2 branch (subject to any major bugs!). That means we can concentrate on making a public v3 beta release, which you guys are going to like

So, far from the end!

Rob

We switched to InstallShield 9. We also got this message in our testing with older versions of Windows, but if you install the service packs it's fine.

Rob

All this hype about the great new features that were supposed to be in 2.0 final

You're thinking of 3.0-beta1. The idea for 2.0 is to fix (most of) the bugs so we can get on with releasing unstable but FUN versions from the trunk.

Rob

The current Hijack version is completely up to date for v2.00 final.

-ml

That's what I figured, only I am at work at the moment, so Emplode installs will have to wait until I get home. The b13 upgrader worked fine in putting the image on the player though

Thanks for all the hard work guys, and I am already checking announcments again for the 3.00beta releases

That means we can concentrate on making a public v3 beta release, which you guys are going to like

[whine] When's 3.0 going to be ready? [/whine]

assumed it might be as you were on the alpha program. You might want to update your page to reflect this.

Thanks

Rob,
the release notes make mention of a BPM calculator showing it's results in the Track Details screen.
But I can't seem to be able to find it.
All I can see is : Track, Artist, Source, Genre, Plays, Last played, marked, file size, codec and format.

Where's the BPM counter?

Is is this the april fool you've included?

Go away for lunch, return to find this.

Well, at least something good is happening today...

Sigh. I'm at work with no Windows machine to speak of. I managed to scrounge a null-modem cable for my Solaris machine to find that the source to upgclient isn't available. Can anyone tell me if there's any known way to upgrade under Solaris? A little bit of tweaking appears to have gotten download.c to compile.

You could use any earlier version of the upgclient, such as the one for v2beta13 (still on their website, under "beta" software).

I don't see any source for upgclient for any version of the software, unless it's well hidden inside emptool, in which case I'm likely to be screwed anyway, as it relies on both Linux and a little-endian CPU.

Oh.. and right you are. Bummer.

I couldnt find bpm either, but the empeg feels much more responsive, especially visuals.

just found it, you have to long press info

Where's the BPM counter?

Well it SHOULD be there. It may not display anything until it has calculated the BPM, which requires one complete play through of the track from start to finish.

Rob

just found it, you have to long press info

Yes, long pressing info shows the track details screen, but I can't see a BPM counter there?

source for upgclient

Come on! Someone!?! Anyone?!? Bueller?

Surely there's nothing proprietary in the upgrader.

Surely there's nothing proprietary in the upgrader.

We've never released the source of upgclient. To me, this looks like an oversight, but we can't, unfortunately, go handing stuff out during Chapter 11 no matter how little "intellectual property" (gah!) is in it. An enterprising coder armed with the emptool sources, a SerialConnection object from lib/protocol/connection.h, and an Upgrader object from lib/protocol/upgrader.h might easily duplicate it, though.

Peter