I've just found out that you can control mplayer via a fifo file. So to quit mplayer in a good way you could do the following: 1. Create a fifo somewhere: mkfifo mplayer_fifo
2. Start mplayer within your script like this: mplayer -quiet <myradiostation> -input file=mplayer_fifo 3. Write this into your stop script: echo quit >mplayer_fifo _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community