Another idea for -Q switch
Brandon Kuczenski <[email protected]> Sun, 17 Jul 2005 23:39:50 -0400 (EDT)
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.multimedia.xmms.devel |
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This is sort of a feature request. How complicated would it be to implement the following: Currently, opening a track with the -Q switch causes that track to be added next in line in the playlist. But if xmms is currently stopped, the track will be enqueued but not actually played. Desired behavior would be: enqueue the track to the current playlist AND start playing it if xmms is currently stopped, or enqueue it 'next in line' after the current track if xmms is currently playing. It makes sense to me that running 'xmms' should cause music to be played, even if no music is currently playing, and even if the -Q switch is specified. Possibly this could be added to the -e switch too. Does that make sense? Is there interest? It would be possible to do with the -p switch, if the behavior of -p was changed to not actually interrupt songs that are already playing. Or, if XMMS's 'playing/not playing' state could be queried (can it?) then one could do this with a shell script wrapper. Also, preliminary evidence suggests that when a playlist is loaded but xmms is not playing, and the -Q switch is used, the selected file will be played 'second' if xmms -p is sent. It seems like it should be 'first'. Regards, Brandon