I'd be willing to ( . .) do my damndest to cause Emplode failures.

If you want to try: you can easily create the infamous 0x800703e4 errors, by starting a synch while Audiocatalyst is ripping at full speed. Synching fails nine out of ten times, then. Keep trying, though: once every so often, emplode does manage to retrieve the playlist from Emma. The errors seem to happen during any of emplode 'stages' (whatever they are). I've seen stage 1,2,4,5, and 7 if I remember correctly.

As the error is not confined to USB usage (see my 'Not just a USB error' post, above), I believe it is caused by load problems of emplode under W98. With USB pumping at a rate of 91.5KB/sec, emplode is just more vulnerable for the errors then serial links.

Also, with scanners, printers, and external HDD's happily pumping megafiles of data over USB routinely, it can't be USB by itself.


Henno
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