Hi.

-> (3rd party) software to support new files ships with a detection plugin for emplode. Emplode, when accepting files through drap&drop or however, runs through its detection plugins to figure out if the file type is accepted
-> On Empeg, the same thing will happen, just that there's also a player-plugin that will handle the playback of the song

You won't need a detection plugin on the empeg, that's the job of the "codec=" line in the *1 FID files. It might be good to make the decoder check the validity of a file first though. (There was a thread about a killer-WAV-file somewhere on this BBS lately, which should be an impossible thing, making the empeg lock up that is.)

cu,
sven

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