Can't you just set the drives as read/write and run the player application from command line? That always works for me.

Yeessss, but we don't tell people that because of the risk of them corrupting their filesystems by not rerunning the player before powering off. Manually remounting the filesystems read-write is one of the traditional borderlines between a consumer-level tech-supportable situation and a geek-level you're-on-your-own situation...

That's why the FAQ (last I looked) still tells people to use Emplode/Emptool to fix the database: so that nothing except our own software ever sees a read-write mounted filesystem.

Peter