I may be fishing... but it sounds to me as if you want it to act like a CD player? One that has a stop button, anyway. You want to leave it on when there is no music playing, but NOT have it pick up in the middle of the song you left off on? With all of the things that are better about the empeg than any other head unit... this sounds like a step backwards to me.

Personally, if I pause the song for some reason and want to start over from the beginning of the song or the playlist (which would be an album in my case), I have no problem pressing the extra buttons.