How do you make Mplayer use one instance? (Solved)

[Pizzasgood]

With Gxine, when you run another song, it realizes that it is already running and switches the one that's going instead of running another instance. I think xmms does that too. However, Mplayer doesn't. Is there any way to make it? A generic "make anything run one instance" method would be just as nice as an Mplayer-only method.

[GuestToo]

not sure
a simple workaround might be to killall mplayer first

[Flash]

Do you mean you want Gxine to finish playing the track it was playing before it starts playing the track you just clicked?

[Pizzasgood]

I mean that if I'm listening to "BadReputation.mp3" and I click on "SomethingLikeThat.mp3," Gxine will just switch and play that immediately. However, if I have the runaction set to Mplayer, it starts another instance and plays at the same time.

a simple workaround might be to killall mplayer first

I guess I'll use that for now. Good thing it starts so fast That's the reason I'm using it over Gxine. It takes several seconds less to get going. I guess I could go back to xmms, but I need to keep Mplayer around anyway, so I figured it would be easier to just use it.


EDIT: Yep, that works pretty well. I couldn't change the mplayer/gmplayer script (or it would kill itself) so I had to make an mplayerSING/gmplayerSING script. Rox 2.3 wouldn't let me set the run-action for all audiofiles for some reason, so I did it manually. The end result works pretty nicely though. Thanks G2.