Is there any benefit to installing the USB driver that comes with the empeg software or should i just stick with the one that comes with my OS ?

The one that comes with the OS claims to be newer than the one in v2.0b3 too.

You shouldn't be able to use emplode over USB if you don't install the drivers that came with the empeg software. According to Hugo, they're using a custom USB class, so it needs its own driver, that is not built into Windows.

Bruno

Yes, I'd be most surprised if it worked without our driver on windows. I know linux comes with one for the empeg though.

Hugo

Yeah, i'm on linux, i was surprised to see on my fresh install of linux that as soon as i plugged the empeg in it was recognised and the driver loaded without me having to do anything..

The driver that comes with emptool calls itself v0.11, but the driver that Mandrake Linux 8.1 loads calls itself v1.2

hub.c: USB new device connect on bus3/1, assigned device number 2
usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x84f/0x1) is not claimed by any active driver.
usbserial.c: USB Serial support registered for Generic
usb.c: registered new driver serial
usbserial.c: USB Serial Driver core v1.3
usbserial.c: USB Serial support registered for Empeg
usbserial.c: Empeg converter detected
usbserial.c: Empeg converter now attached to ttyUSB0 (or usb/tts/0 for devfs)
empeg.c: v1.2:USB Empeg Mark I/II Driver

I'm having a few problems, so i was just wondering if maybe the driver that comes with mandrake was a problem, seen as it's version number doesn't agree with the offical empeg driver.

I'll have to defer this to some other people in the office who use linux to sync - I don't, personally. I know Peter does, but he's on holiday for a couple of weeks...

Hugo

I'm having a few problems,

Could you elaborate?

Elaborate on my problems?

I keep getting connection timeouts during database rebuilds when doing a sync from emptool.

I can delete stuff, but renaming a playlist doesn't stick.

Ooops, sorry; I thought you meant that you were having troubles getting the USB driver to load. [doh]Nevermind

I haven't seen any timeouts during database rebuilds though.

renaming a playlist doesn't stick

I seem to recall a syntax like:

mv "Some Name" "Other Name"

though, I could be wrong about that.

Is something like this similar to what you are seeing?

2100 Synchronising [ 0%]
2101 Starting synchronise
2102 Checking connection status [Done]
2103 Locking player interface [Done]
2104 Checking player media [Done]
2105 Enabling write access [Done]
2106 Removing old database [Done]
2109 Rebuilding databases [Done]
1260 Drive 0 size: 5624M, free: 47888K, used: 5578M (99%)
1260 = Total size: 5624M, free: 47888K, used: 5578M (99%)
2110 Disabling write access [Done]
2111 Restarting player [ 0%]
4106 Connection timed out/>
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Yup. That's what i get now. And the rename still doesn't work.

I was gettings lots of timeout errors during the database rebuild, but a sync once with emplode seems to have fixed those.

/Albums> rename "Pear Jam" "Pearl Jam"
expand: added /Albums/Pear Jam
/Albums> sync
2100 Synchronising [ 0%]
2101 Starting synchronise
2102 Checking connection status [Done]
2103 Locking player interface [Done]
2104 Checking player media [Done]
2105 Enabling write access [Done]
2106 Removing old database [Done]
2109 Rebuilding databases [Done]
1260 Drive 0 size: 3910M, free: 86150K, used: 3826M (97%)
1260 = Total size: 3910M, free: 86150K, used: 3826M (97%)
2110 Disabling write access [Done]
2111 Restarting player [ 0%]
4106 Connection timed out/Albums>

Hmm, renaming from emplode via VMWare works... I guess it's an emptool problem.

Does anyone have emptool working with the 2.0 b3 release?