When to power-up into sleep mode

I accumulated a few wishes on my travels over the New Year period. Here's another:

Sometimes I'll stop the car engine (with the empeg on) and remove the key (sending it to sleep), then decide to listen for a couple of minutes longer. No problem - it's in sleep mode, so I wake it up. Then, when I'm finished, I press and hold the top button (or press Power on the remote, or use the Power Off menu item).

When I come back to the car a while later and start it up, the empeg goes straight into sleep mode (because it remembered that I put it to sleep). I'd prefer it to come back to life, unless it was asleep the last time the ignition was on. In other words, ignore any changes in its state while the ignition is off.

Yes, I know the obvious workaround is to turn it off by briefly turning on the ignition, but if I'm asleep in the back, I don't really want to get up and crawl over the seats (even assuming that I can find the key...) .

Actually, if I'm asleep, I'll forget to turn it off and drain my battery. Should have said, "about to go to sleep".

This raises the question of whether or not the empeg will ever turn completely off when you: Cut ignition, turn player back on, turn player ``off'', wait. I'm too lazy to actually go to my car and play with it and then wait for an hour. Does anyone know if it does turn off?

an hour?.. I thought it was configurable in seconds inside emplode...

Yeah - I have mine set to 1 minute so that blue light doesn't attract thieving scumbags (tm) I also did it so it would boot every time I start the car so my son can wave at Tux (well that kind of thing amuses 18mth old kids)

That kind of thing amuses 28 year old kids like me. I wave at him 60% of the time.

Even my wife waves and says "Hi, Tux!".

You have no idea how it makes me feel to know that everyone is waving at my Tux animation...

LOL... that's hilarious... Kelly does the exact same thing Tony. Too damn cute.