Re: No sound if emms-play-dired is run while another track is paused

[Yoni Rabkin]

Greg Farough <gregf@gnu.org> writes:

> I've recently run into a problem of a paused audio track getting
> "stuck" until all mpv processes are killed, and am unsure if it's a
> problem with mpv or EMMS. I'm using mpv 0.29.1 and EMMS 7.3.
> (emms-player-mpv) is the only one in emms-player-list.
>
> Steps to replicate:
>
> * Play track or directory with 'emms-play-dired (via emms-player-mpv)
>
> * Pause the track with 'emms-pause
>
> * Try to play another track or directory with 'emms-play-dired
>   (replacing the old playlist)
>
> * The track will show that it's playing, but there will be no sound
>   on this track or any other until mpv is killed outside of Emacs.
>   
> I know for a fact that this used to work in the past, as I've been
> playing music exclusively through EMMS for several years now.

I've definitely had this happen to me in the past, but I didn't track it
down. Perhaps now is the time.

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