This is a problem with mplayer. It doesn't happen on all Linux systems
so it is not clear what is the common factor perhaps timing.

Attached is a version of mplayer.sh which tracks which mplayer
processes are created when playing a stream and then tries to kill them
when stream is halted.  This mplayer.sh should work with bash but may
not work with other shells (e.g. ksh, csh, tcsh) so please report back
on success/failure and the Linux distro.

The mplayer.sh also has a fix for playing WMA files which have spaces
in the filename.

To install:
1. Stop any files/stream which use the mplayer.sh script (e.g.
AlienBBC, WMA through Softsqueeze).
2. Save current Alien/Bin/mplayer.sh in case you need to revert.
3. Note ownership and permission of Alien/Bin/mplayer.sh
4. Download attached mplayer.sh.txt and rename to mplayer.sh
5. Replace Alien/Bin/mplayer.sh with downloaded mplayer.sh
6. Change ownership & permissions of new mplayer.sh to match previous
mplayer.sh
7. Test - there is no need to restart SC.


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