So I assumed, but his statement was vaguely ambiguous.

Not in the context, it wasn't:

Does anyone know if this is a Software feature coming to the EMPEG in v.3? (emphasis mine)

And, when I said "it doesn't exist yet", I was referring to the feature, not software v3. Software v3 (as you well know) is in alpha for the car player, and about to be in stores on the Rio Karma.
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