Multiple Exaile instances run instead of one while using "Open With"

[sleggy_allen]

i noticed that when i selected like 5 mp3 files and right click on it and selected "open with" exaile...it will actually open 5 exaile windows and play simultaneously...i hope they can have a fix for this one...i have a screenshot but i just reduced it to 2 windows....

[Johannes Sasongko (sjohannes)]

What happens if you open a terminal, run "exaile", wait until it loads
up, open another terminal, and run "exaile" again?

[sleggy_allen (sleggy-allen-hotmail)]

i opened exaile in terminal...it opened it and i listened to one song and let it play...i opened a 2nd terminal and typed exaile...it says in terminal: "you have entered an invalid option"....the exaile window disappeared on my screen...but the song continues to play....and when i typed exaile again...still gives me "you have entered an invalid option" and exaile window reappeared on my screen...when i typed exaile again it usually loops back to the same result the window keeps on appearing and disappearing..

[krishna (krishnakumar-eml)]

when attempting to import a .m3u file the player simply crashed...

[Masca (salinasv)]

I guess this got fixed witht the changes in how exaile manages uri.
Can you confirm this in 0.3 ?

[Johannes Sasongko (sjohannes)]

There are 2 things that may cause this bug:

1. We didn't specify in exaile.desktop that we support multiple files in the command line (which we should support, otherwise it's a bug). The result is the same as the next problem.

2. The "Open With" feature of the file manager runs exaile N times no matter what we specify in the .desktop file. This causes a race condition while exaile is starting and trying to grab the D-Bus name.

If it's #1, the fix is IIRC a simple change from %u to %U, which I think is implemented in 0.3. If it's #2, we can probably move the D-Bus name-grabbing earlier; I'm not sure how it's done right now.

[Steve Dodier-Lazaro (sidi)]

The desktop file and command line arguments seem to be able to queue multiple files without problem.