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I vote yes, change the default behavior so that the serial output goes to the port...


It's not quite that simple. With the v441-v460 scheme, Hijack doesn't work properly unless "Apps use serial". But interacting with the player itself won't work on that setting (by design and necessity).

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I now see a constant incrementing second count and alerts for when I pause and stuff on my serial port. That's supposed to be happening now once I made that change, right?


Right. That's a side-effect of Hijack not being able to work properly.

v461 is now out, and simplifies all of this by removing the player/app separation, same way as Hijack v440 and earlier had it.