Ok, I'm trying to delete the database and am having 0 luck. I put the dev image on the player, but I can't even get to a working shell. I've tried holding down q, pressing rapidly, etc but no dice. The machine goes straight into player mode and won't even listen to keystrokes to control the player.

I'd like to know how I might be able to increase the timeout for pressing q or any other way I can get to a shell prompt.

after that I was going to do

dest-empeg:/# cd /empeg/var
dest-empeg:/empeg/var# rwm
dest-empeg:/empeg/var# rm tags database playlists


and reboot the player

HEALLLP!