My Sony stalk works 100% now. Yeee Haaa! Bravo. This makes my empeg 99.999% perfect. Great job everyone.

-Zeke

just say you weren't paying much attention...

Only problem is the g'friend is pregnant so her weight is now SIGNIFICANTLY different than it was a couple of months ago.

Wendy filter weight & retina scan?


This is THE software release of the decade!
I've been playing with the re-tagging functions in emplode more than anything else. If only there were tag editing SW that worked this well and this easily! (hint)

Only had one problem. During a sync I got a report that there were errors in the meta data of two files. emplode hung while fixing it but the player restarted. I had to kill off emplode and re-run it. I synced again (with no changes) & all was ok. Don't know quite what caused it.

This was sooo worth the wait. And the threats to Tony!

Murray
new styleee

Now about that menusort hack...

Good news, bad news...

The good news is that it shouldn't be hard to do it again for 2.0 - I had a quick look. The bad news is that I'm extremely busy until the end of the week and then out of the country (and away from the empeg) for another 3 weeks...

Borislav

Ohhh...man...I don't think I could handle a wait that long. Any chance of bribery or something to kick this up a few notches on your To-Do list?

Please?

Ah well...I guess that's life. If we've waited this long for 2.0, I suppose we could wait a while longer for the sort hack. Actually, I'm tempted to go back to 1.03 for the next month now. (!)

Anyone have a dual-boot config for the empeg?


- Chris
32GB MK2 090000664 Smoke
Queue # 2 (who the heck was 1?)

First, I just wanted to say great work guys! I really like the resizing of the visual during the transient and one line info modes! I also like the quicker access to the sound menus and the improved EQ interface! An amazing number of other improvements.....

Something else I noticed though that is new to me, which I didn't see in the release notes... Emplode now lets me select much longer times for stand-by after ignition off (I mean really really long).

Is that new to 2.0? Or did I just miss this in a previous update?

I used to only able to select up to a couple of minutes worth of delay, where about 10 minutes would have been nice. Now 10 minutes is no problem.... in fact Emplode lets me select up to 172,800,000 seconds of delay. If I didn't screw up the math, that's about 5.48 years!

That means that now even when I have to run into Fry's Electronics and wait through those insane lines, my EMPEG will still be in standby when I get back! (just kidding - I wouldn't make my EMPEG standby THAT long)

It syncs properly with a setting of 600 (10 min), so I guess I'll try that tomorrow in the car and see what happens. But just curious, what is the actual maximum allowable setting that the EMPEG will implement? Did it really increase, or is this an Emplode bug I will find about tomorrow when I try to test this?

And the threats to Tony!

Yeah, like I said in the post to the RioCar.org news page, you can put down the pitchforks now.

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Tony Fabris

Thanks for that interim hosting, mlord. You can now also find the kernel patch and precompiled kernels for mk1 and mk2 players in the downloads section of www.riocar.org.

Richard.

In reply to:

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Yeah, like I said in the post to the RioCar.org news page, you can put down the pitchforks now.

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But what am I going to do with all of this squid?

Even I can't eat THIS much sushi.

Regarding the VOLADJ kernel. Is there a way to diable the VOLADJ when using the player on AC power. Although I like the compression when I use it in my vehicle, it would be nice not to have it when hooked up to my home system.

I know I could just reinstall the production kernel when using it on my home system, but this would become quite a pain to do all the time.

RE: disabling voladj when not in car:

This should be easy to do in the kernel patch, since the code could simply check for in-car/not-in-car and not activate unless in-car.

How about it Richard?

Don't do that by default. I actually like it being on at home. When I'm at work, I usually leave the player running all day through my PC speakers. It's at a low volume so as not to disturb the rest of the office. Voladj really REALLY helps keep the music audible while still allowing me to listen at low volume.

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Tony Fabris

You can write a little program to call the EMPEG_DSP_VOLADJ ioctl on /dev/dsp. Frank has already done this. If you wanted, you could write a little custom init script which first checks /proc/empeg_power, and then calls the ioctl with the appropriate numbers.

e.g.
Assuming you have Frank's program installed in /drive0/var

if grep "AC Power" < /proc/empeg_power > /dev/null ; then
/drive0/var/voladj 131072 0 65536 30 80
fi

Personally, I'm not going to change my patch to have this behaviour by default, because I (like tfabris) use my player at work, and it's good to have it just humming along at low volume. :)

Richard.

I installed the new update, after removing the old emplode, but I'm getting BSOD's now.. I thought I saw tony say something about a DLL that was causing problems.. I wonder If I missed it. I'll keep searching for tony's post.. arg.



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My latest VolAdj kernels, with included BreakOut game, now have front panel on/off control of VolAdj, and the setting is persistent across power cycles car/home.

ok.. i havn't used my windows install in a couple months.. I guess it got a little rotten. I started getting other BSOD's for VXD's that shouldn't have anything to do with emplode.

I re-installed windows (it's been 6 months, long overdue) and now everything is fine. :)


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