mplayer spawns multiple instances

[sverm]

I'm getting a rather weird behavior in mPlayer, as shipped in the Community Codec pack. When I click File>Open Folder and select an album to play it plays fine. But if I do it again for a different folder, MPlayer seems to go haywire and start playing multiple tracks at once. I can quit one instance normally, but other instances must be killed from a term window using ps and kill.


I've tried other players. Exhaile doesn't seem to support my files, complaining about a missing asf splitter. Deadbeef seems to cut my songs off before the very end, perhaps chopping off about half a second. Ah wait, could this all be WMA-related?

 

[Prometheus]

Ah wait, could this all be WMA-related?

It could be. I haven't personally encountered any of those issues with MP3s (especially not with Deadbeef, which is currently my favourite audio-player on the Pandora ).