playback of an album in mplayer stops at the end of each track

[wxl]

This is really an mplayer issue but if you pass -ao alsa as gmplayer does, playback stops at the end of each track as it waits for input. I'm not sure if this is the same with the coreaudio driver, but my guess is that it is. I would suggest removing the switch altogether. mplayer tends to be fairly smart in figuring out how to play any given file, unless that file is particularly corrupt.

BTW: thanks. The Google Music webapp is a gluttonous resource-hungry waste.

[wxl]

Another addendum: it's possible there are Linux users who don't want to use alsa, preferring, say, jack instead. In that case, they probably already have their mplayer config tweaked the way they want. Given the fact that command line options override configuration files, I think even beyond this weird behavior, there's a good justification to removing the specification of the specific driver.