failure
what I like about xmms is the named pipe (provided by xmms-info) that can be
used to read informations about the currently playing track. so I tried to
implement a similar feature into randomplay; sometimes success seemed close
& sometimes it seemed far away. finally I surrendered - being not able
to reproduce phenomena makes debugging meaningless. - I guess I should learn
more about named pipes, fork(), zombies, maybe threads, kill signals, and
stuff like that.
success
to make up for the failure with randomplay I created an
RSS feed for my movie database. - I'm sure it
will be read & syndicated by a great many people :-)
