Well, according to this post, an early version was submitted to the alpha team, but I'm sure this was a very rough version.

What we got was a very early preview of emplode, not the full player software. And that version of Emplode didn't really have the new features in yet. In fact, although the Search pane was present in that build, I was unable to make a search work at all when I tried it.

So, in essence, the alpha team hasn't even seen 1.1 yet. And according to recent activity on the Alpha team mailing list, I'd say that, as a group, we're getting a bit antsy.

Actually, I think the S3 buy is probably a factor in it all?

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Tony Fabris