Actually, you may be able to slightly speed up the boot time by telling Hijack to pretend that you DO have a tuner. Hijack responds instantly to the tuner commands, so any timeouts/waits that that player may do are reduced to the bare minimum. May not make more than a few milliseconds of difference, but you can time it yourself.

in the config.ini file:

[hijack]
fake_tuner=1


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