Whether caused by dirty track, a bad frog, whatever, one of the most irritating things to hear is your thundering locomotive suddenly go through its engine startup sequence while continuing to roll down the track. Or even worse come to a screeching stop, go through the sequence and then continue on.
ESU LokSound decoders have settings that can prevent this annoying behavior and you don't have to purchase a keep-alive either. Going all the way back to v3.5 decoders (that's as far as the author went) there is a sheet in the sound files called Special Options, see Fig 1.
Figure 1 - Special Options Sheet
Although the options available on this sheet differ according to version (see fig 2 and 3), selecting them will prevent the decoder from entering the startup sequence and/or causing the locomotive from coming to a complete stop. In other words, the locomotive will contiue on it's way with the sound where it was and the loco's speed resuming where it left off.
Figure 3 - v4 and 5 Special Options
Figure 3 also shows that it is a DCC decoder with only the DCC protocol selectable by default.
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