I've noticed a couple things tho... I can't seem to get to the hijack menu when emphatic is running. Now I'm wondering if 1.0 was like that too.

Hijack limitation. Can't do anything about it. The very act of emphatic looking like it's in the background is some minor trickeration also. (Technically it's running in a 2-pixel area on the lower left, which you can sometimes see if the play/pause icon is displayed.) I'm just working with what Hijack gives me.

Not sure if there's any smart way to improve Hijack in this regard, but right now Mark is busy enough with Linux stuff, sleds, and tuners that I don't think he's thinking about this kind of stuff.

is that unlikely to change?

I don't think I'm doing anything particularly memory hoggish... I'll ship it without symbols next time so the executable is a little smaller, but I'm not sure where I can save on RAM. If anyone finds any obvious bloat in my code, they're more than welcome to fix it.