Hijack v455 is now available.

Even if you have not upgraded in a while, then this one's for you!

It includes a fix for a nasty bug regarding treatment of the "MUTE" (aka RS232 "DCD") line on the back of the player. It was not being correctly handled in all prior versions of hijack, leading to the possibility of it "spamming" the player into oblivion. Fixed.

Also in this version, the extmute_on and extmute_off options actually work as intended now. In addtion to the fix described above, there was also an issue with the player s/w swallowing button codes from the extmute functions. This has been fixed by having SaveAux automatically insert a delay into the button queue when necessary.

So one really can now do this for external mobile phone audio on the Empeg Aux input:

[hijack]
;@DC extmute_off=SaveAux
;@DC extmute_on=RestoreSrc


Note that the ;@DC prefixes are advisable, because when on AC power the MUTE line is usually floating (or connected to a serial port, oops!), and bounces around when the ethernet is in use. Not good behaviour there, so use the ;@DC prefix to ensure that MUTE is ignored unless in the car.

Cheers