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

[Jorgen Schaefer]

Daniel Brockman <address@hidden> writes:

> 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?

We would need to remember that we did send a SIGTERM when we
`emms-stop' the player, because that would make it return a
non-zero value most of the time.

I don't think it is worth the effort. Isn't the problem solved by
now?

Regards,
        -- Jorgen

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