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         <div class="section-brand"><span class="logo">tcd</span> <span class="subtitle">Audio Authenticity Analyzer</span><br><span class="tagline">Psychoacoustic transcode detection via spectral analysis</span></div>
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       <div class="player-controls">
-        <button id="loadBtn" class="player-btn load-btn" title="Load Audio File">📂 Load File</button>
+        <button id="loadBtn" class="player-btn load-btn" title="Load Audio File">
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+          Load File
+        </button>
         <button id="playBtn" class="player-btn" title="Play/Pause">▶</button>
         <button id="stopBtn" class="player-btn" title="Stop">⏹</button>
         <button id="holdBtn" class="player-btn" title="Hold Max Cutoff">⊡</button>