The main reason it's not been released is simply that people are still having sync'ing problems. We don't want to release anything until we're 100% sure it's stable enough not to change for the forseeable future.

Although I agree that you guys are busy, and that there's still software issues that take precedence (such as getting the Mk2 builds up to the stability of the Mk1 builds), I'm not certain that your "100%" goal is realistic.

Your synch protocols are going to keep changing over the long term. If you wait until they stop changing to release them, you may doom yourself to never releasing them.

Yes, some people are still having synch problems. But most of the major ones have been solved since around beta 10. And if you open-sourced the synch protocols, perhaps some of the experts could help iron out the last few problems for you.

Yes, there'd be the issue of third-party synch utilities becoming obsolete when you upgrade the player software, but that's for the third-party developers to worry about. And in any case, that's no different than an end-user upgrading his player without upgrading his Emplode.

So consider releasing the synch protocols once the Mk2 builds settle down a bit. If only for the Mac users...

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Tony Fabris