13,174... I think you might be approaching that magic number where you should look into patching your player to allow large FID counts... See this thread for the binary (version 7).
Thanks, Paul (and you, too, Jemmi) - that seems to have done the trick. It was a bit of a rocky road getting the player to talk with emplode, but after several reboots and a few abortive synchronization tries, it all began working just fine.
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