Automatic Volume Level Adjustment..

How about an addition to Hijack(?), to use the microphone input
to monitor the background noise level in the car, and adjust the volume level accordingly.

This would be a really usefull feature, and it is something
that many in car audio systems already do.

Is this a possibility?

This has been previously discuss and I think the general thought was it wouldnt work very well. Most stereo adjust the volume based on speed not actual ambient noise. Maybe if we can get the OBD-2 stuff worked out we can implement such a feature.

my stock amp had a neat feature where it would make the stereo louder when you lowered the top (convertible). I wonder if that would be possible with the empeg too

one thing that I'd really like to see would be to store volume adjustments for songs. So when song A comes on, it automatically raises the volume 2dB, but when song B comes on, it lowers it 1dB.

I haven't bothered to figure out if it's doable yet, but something based on use of ID3 RVA2 tags would be useful: calculate mean amplitude of your collection, use RVA2 tags to adjust mean track amplitude to match.

One of these days I'll get 5 spare minutes and figure out why it won't work

Should be possible using the Phone Mute line tied to a sensor for top up/down.
As it is people use it to switch to/from AUX IN when the phone's in use, routing the phone audio into the empeg - it should be possible to make it raise/lower the volume instead...

/Michael