It's the one I got from your server, Mark:

1,846,532 bytes.

md5sum is: b12df779f039afbcdf2eaa524ffbe5b6

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which looks different from what you have there.

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Your jemplode.jar is larger in size. Can we assume you are using a newer version?

Ahh.. maybe that's it.

I've just dropped the one I tried it with here, onto my server for you. I called it jemplode.jar.v69.0000000000000000001.

Grab that and try again?

Meanwhile, I'll try with the other one here.

Oh, by the way.. I just repaired one of your tuners here a few minutes ago.. listening to radio with it now.

Cheers

Thank you for both! Tuner repaired is already a great news Now I am trying the other jemplode. Hopefully that's a good news too...

Downloaded. I'll let u know.

Second tuner also now works. I had to replace the RF modules in both of them -- one got a factory original pinched from an NFG tuner I got from Hugo's junk pile (thanks Hugo!), the other got one of the PCATS modules, with appropriate modifications as described in an older thread.

The two old failing modules were removed using hot air, and could perhaps be repaired someday. Rumour has it that an op-amp chip inside the module is the problem. So I'll file those in case I someday need them, and then try to identify/find/replace the op-amps.

Cheers

Mark,

Please feel free to keep BOTH RF modules for yourself, in case they can be fixed and used by somebody in the future.

And, just mail me one of the two radio modules. I think I'd prefer the one with the original Tuner.

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Back to the mp3 transfer issue:

The newer version of jEmplode seems to work fine. I transferred both files again and they sound fine. iPod does not skip them either, to confirm that the reason why it would so so is exactly that the files were corrupted.

Now, i noticed that this issue with transferring mp3s was quite random in the first place, so I really hope this is solved by using the newer jEmplode. But, there's no way to be 100% sure. I am going to re-trasnfer everything. I'll do so in batches, so I can check if everything is ok. It's going to take forever...

Again, thanks for all the help.

Shonky, what did you use to compare the two files?

... and, for the records, in this version of jEnmplode I can use HiJack as a downloading option. Which I am doing, just to be on the safe side. If anything in the download protocol was not fixed right since the previous version, I may be having the same problems again, so I am going with HiJack. I will be crossing my fingers. For the next 3 or 4 days.

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I am sorry, it still does not work. At the ened I still get all 0 bytes files.

Bummer.. Got a Linux system you can do it on instead? Nary a problem with it here.

Cheers

Or.. here's another idea, which might be feasible.

You could just ignore Jemplode, and use a recursive FTP client (eg. wget or ncftp on Linux (there might be something similar on Windows) to just grab the entire /empeg/fids/ heirarchy from the player.

Then run a script afterwards to rename the files from hex to something meaningful (artist, album, title, etc..) from the associated tag files. (I think there's already a script that does that, somewhere, but again.. trivial on Linux).

And finally another (or the same) script to copy the empeg tag information back into the ID3v1/v2 embedded tags. This should also be a simple script on Linux, doing callouts to mp3tool to modify the files.

If you were doing it on Linux, I could even save you some effort, and quickly cobble up a bash/awk script to do all of that.

Cheers

Wget is available for Windows, too (and I think it also comes with cygwin).

No, Mark, no Linux box here handy. And, so far this version of jEmplode still seems to be working ok.

Hexworkshop. Best hex editor I've found so far (there's a lot of crap ones) - not 100% happy with it but it does the job for most things I need.
http://www.hexworkshop.com/

When you've done the compare you can click on the lines in the screenshot I sent and it will highlight the data in the files.

Ok, I finally completed another full download of all my MP3s from my Empeg via Jemplode. Successfully. No glitches at all.
It really seems it was an issue with an older version of Jemplode.
Thanks Mark for giving me the better jemplode version, and thanks Shonky for pointing me to HexWorkshop. And thanks everyone for the help.