Hi Matt,
As requested here is a thread concerning the explorer integration issue. basically this hadn't worked properly for a long time but I put this down to the fact that my PC had a very old XP Install that had had numerous MC betas on there, with lots of changes regarding the shell menu. Because of this I never reported this as a problem presuming it was my system. Then at the weekend I reinstalled Windows on my PC. Brand new install, bare windows, a virus checker and an uninstaller. The next thing to be installed was MC. So nothing else on there and no plugins. When right clicking a file in explorer and selecting play I expected MC to open and then start playing the track...it did the first part. It opened...but the track was not in playing now and it didn't play. Replace and play does exacvtly the same thing...MC opens but playing now remains how it was at last shut down. I do have this option ticked to keep Playing Now when the PC is shut down but would have thought shell integration would override this...
Thanks for listening,
Adam