First off, just to "defend myself" the cloning stuff in jEmplode was definitely an afterthought, and it's not used much.
Mike, This is almost certainly stupid operation on my part: I wanted to drag stuff from one window to another rather than click,drag/scroll [I am trying to to populate an 'Artists' top-level playlist with artist names and then Albums].

So you're saying that when you File->Open Clone, it doesn't bring up the window to select an Empeg to connect to?
No. The window to select appears but the Empegs IP address within that window doesn't.

Regarding the closing, I'm not just hitting X, it does the same with File->Exit

Update on the File->Open Clone thing: Possibly the time between opening the original and a 2nd copy is significant? I opened jEmplode when I started this msg (and left it there) I have successfully opened another a few minutes later (after typing this). I had previously been trying to open the clone ASAP (and failing).

[Mike, Wherever this thread goes - jEmplode is really neat, thank you]

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