Quoting john doe (2019-08-15 12:40:39)
> According to the mpd protocol (1), that is, if my understanding is
> correct, I should be able, using an idle event, to get the state
> ('state: play, stop, or pause').
> If I connect to mpd using telnet and enter status I get among other
> lines the desired line.
>
> I'm using mpd to locally stream an internet stream with as output 'httpd'.
> The internet stream will sometime stop and I manually need to do 'mpc
> play' to restart the internet stream which is not practicle.
> To work around this, I now use a cronjob that executes 'mpc play' every
> minute:
>
> * * * * * user mpc play
>
>
> I'd like to understand how idle events work and how I can get the
> desired output.
>
> In addition of understanding how idle events work, is there a better
> approach to this?
>
> Any input is welcome.
My guess is that MPD sees an internet stream as an endlesly continuing
stream(!) of media, and you therefore cannot rely on MPD change of state
for those: If the stream is hangling then that's not an "end of tune" so
not part of MPD defined interface.
- Jonas
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