> Anyway if you don't want to change it I'm sure its only a matter of time till
> someone makes an alternate shell to the empeg.

The entire player application would have to be replaced, something in the order of eight man years of work (and we're not slow). It sounds easy, but a number of other companies have found to their cost that there's more to it than first meets the eye. There's also the MP3/WMA/Whatever royalty to be considered.

Toby (author of the visualisations) is moving to Cambridge to work full time for us soon. I believe he'll be putting in some work on the UI, and I know that Roger and others in the team already have some great new features in the wings. I don't think you'll want to replace it for long.

Rob