derek holzer wrote: > Dear list, > > I've got a question about using various soundfile players with Mozilla > Thunderbird. I've got a webpage on exhibit in a festival right now, > with a selection of MP3s to listen to. I thought it would be a simple > thing, but lusers always find ways of making simple things break ;-) > > The problem is that, each time a user clicks on a link, it opens a new > instance of each soundplayer. Of course, most people don't bother to > close the other player, so pretty soon there are too many instances > and the sound just stops. I've tried XMMS and VLC in particular, and > have resorted to using MPG321 because it will wait for the first > soundfile to finish before playing the next one. But the users can't > see the app playing the sound, and more than that, they can't > interrupt one sound with another because there's no interface to stop > playback. > > So what I'd like to know is which app will support enqueuing files for > playback in a single instance? i know you can enqeue with amarok ... whether you can configure that as the default action, i don't know ... http://amarok.kde.org/ shayne
