I dunno, I've seen the Empeg ignore a press-and-hold before. Short presses might work to stop the runaway, but I'll bet that it'll ignore a single press-and-hold on the volume-down button during a runaway. Anyone care to try and test that assumption?

When the volume goes crazy like that, everyone's first instinct is to press and hold that volume-down button as hard as they can. I know it's my first instinct. Since the user interface is already designed around the "hold=volume, press=track" metaphor (and in fact penalizes you sometimes when you forget that metaphor), you should expect the user to behave that way in that situation.

Tony Fabris
Empeg #144