Another side-effect is that Control^C no longer works to terminate the player.

Hmm, that's no good then, I think we'll be changing it back (at least for Linux products -- it was something that made life a lot easier for Karma on Ecos). Something else I've just thought of is that this makes it nigh-on impossible to manually enter multi-character commands (e.g. to play a FID by number).

Peter