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

[Daniel Brockman]

Jorgen Schaefer <address@hidden> writes:

>> 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?

It would be worth it for Bongo, for example, because Bongo
does remember whether it killed the process on purpose.

(I'm talking about mplayer's behavior in itself.)