[emms-help] Re: make emms-player-start cycle players

[Daniel Brockman]

Jorgen Schaefer <address@hidden> writes:

> Guessing from the return value whether the process
> terminated because it couldn't play the file, or because
> there was an error while playing the file, or maybe even
> because the player just felt like it, is rather impossible.

I consider it a bug in mplayer that it seems to always
return zero, even when it fails to play anything.

If it can't even start playback, it should return non-zero,
don't you think?