I have created .m3u playlists for my multimovement pieces. Suppose playlist.m3u contains Track 1.mp3 and Track 2.mp3.

Previously, when I loaded playlist.m3u, it would play Track 1.mp3 and then follow that with Track 2.mp3, provided I had the shuffle option off. When it reached the end of the playlist (Track 2), it would return to the beginning (Track 1), as I had repeat option on. I could load playlist.m3u from either the GUI or from command line (xmms -p playlist.m3u). This is the correct behavior.

However, this no longer works, and I have not made any direct changes to xmms. What happens, with the same shuffle-off, repeat-on settings, is that it would play through Track 1, and then repeat to the beginning of Track 1, without going to Track 2. If I manually told it to start with Track 2, it would keep looping around Track 2, but not proceed through the other files in the playlist. I have no idea why this is the case. Can someone help me?

hi therer

do this

remove the .xmms directory from /root if u are running this as root or from
/home/<username>

this will bring xmms to default settings

regards

Thanks, I tried that and it worked. I'm still interested in how ~/.xmms got corrupted anyways.

it is not that it got corrupted
but accidently u mioght have set some settings whcih were preventing it to run as u wanted
so setting that to default settings did the trick

regards