My previous inexpensive car stereo had a small but very helpful feature which I miss a lot on my empeg:

With Traffic Alerts switched on and while listening to CD/MP3 my previous stereo always tuned automatically to a radio sender with traffic announcements in the background. When the sender was lost on the actual frequency it simply auto-tuned to the next one.

Could that be a feature for hijack? Or is it required in the empeg code?

The feature would be to control in MP3-mode frequently, if the radio station is still present (with the traffic announcement capability promoted in the RDS data). If not, simply auto-tune up to the next radio station, look for the TA capability, if not, tune up again, and so on.

This would be extremely helpful as for traffic announcements the choice of the radio station is not important (at least in Germany) but it is definitifly important to receive a strong local radio station with the TA capability. So the AF feature of RDS is not really helpful.

Juergen