Well, laziness finally prevailed and reaching all the way to the shelf in my cube to control the empeg became to much. So I wrote a little OS X menu item to control the empeg via hijack over http. This runs as a background app so it doesn't take any space in the dock and only uses space in the menubar if an empeg is on the network. If multiple empegs are on the network it (should) provide a control menu for each. It also shows the current track playing via a tool tip if you mouse over it.

It only provides a couple of functions (ones that I would actually use) at the moment, but I can add more if anybody actually uses it and wants something else. Read the included Readme file for installation instructions and requirements.

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Download it at EmpMenuX if you are interested.

-Mike