Though I left programming decades ago and have no intent to write add-ons to the player, I regret this. If emplode really has really been changed in this manner it's a feature that has been removed.

Emplode's "only allow music files" feature isn't for the purpose of "locking people out" or anything. It's just so that if a newbie tries to drag invalid files onto Emplode, they won't waste disk space or give errors in the player if they try to "play" their Claudia Schiffer Jpegs. Remember that you can drag and drop entire folders onto Emplode. Perhaps someone drags and drops a folder that contains a mix of music files as well as non-music files (even something as simple as an M3U list). This filtering feature prevents problems in this case.

And sure you can say "but the player skips invalid files". Sure it does, but they'd still show up in searches and shuffles, generally getting in the way and being annoying. Empeg doesn't want Joe Consumer having to deal with that.

For what it's worth, you can still drag non-MP3 files into Emplode if you rename them to *.mp3 first. Since the file names get mangled within the player anyway, who cares what they're named at that point. So for the expert users, there's still a pretty simple way of uploading their non-music files if they really want.

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Tony Fabris