Bug 77151

Version:           2.4.0 (using KDE 3.2.0, Gentoo)
Compiler:          gcc version 3.2.3 20030422 (Gentoo Linux 1.4 3.2.3-r1, propolice)
OS:          Linux (i686) release 2.4.22-gentoo-r5

I'm trying to make Noatun behave the same way XMMS does with respect to opening songs from a web browser or other application. That is, when I click a link to an MP3 in my web browser and Noatun *isn't* running, I want Noatun to launch and begin playing the selected MP3 automatically. This behaviour works fine, so long as the user remembers to enable Noatun's "Automatically play first file" option (whereas this is the default behaviour of XMMS).

The bug is here: When I click a link to an MP3 in my browser and Noatun *is* already running, I expect the existing instance of Noatun to stop playing what it's playing (if anything), open the new MP3 and automatically start playing it. I can't seem to get Noatun to do this. Sure enough, I can get the existing instance of Noatun to be reused when I open the new song from Konqueror, but Noatun doesn't automatically start playing it. It stops the currently playing song and opens the new one, but then just sits there, despite the fact that the "Automatically play first file" option is enabled. In XMMS and Windows Media Player, the new song automatically starts playing, and that's the behaviour I'd expect in Noatun as well.

By the way, why is the default setting of Noatun to allow multiple instances of it to run? Is that how WinAmp works? (I'm not familiar with WinAmp.)