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Update. The player is having similar problems whether its using files on
external HD or the local disc. I would guess at this point it has
something to do with Opening a Folder.

What follows is an account of my most recent attempt to use Gnome
Mplayer. You will see it exhibits similarly problematic behaviour to
that described in my original report.

For this account, I used three music folders on my local hard disk:
Folder A, Folder B, Folder C.

Folder A contains 6 mp3 files
Folder B contains 8 mp3 files
Folder C contains 14 mp3 files

I have described for each step:
A: My action
G: Gnome MPlayer's response

The account is in three stages for ease of digestion. Problems with the
playlist were exhibited in Stage 2. Problems with playback were
exhibited in Stage 3. The behaviour GNMP exhibited in Stage 3 was very
strange.

STAGE 1
-----------

A: Opened music Folder A
B: Opened Folder A

A: Pressed play
G: Started played first file/track in Folder A 
A: Forwarded to last track and forwarded last track to last few seconds
G: Played the last track to its end and stopped

STAGE 2 - PROBLEMS WITH PLAYLIST
---------------------------------------------------

A: Opened Folder B
G: Opened Folder B, started playing Track 1 from Folder A
A: Selected the menu item to view the playlist
G: Displayed the playlist, revealing that GNMP had not cleared the playlist before loading Folder B, and had added the tracks from Folder B to the end of the list of tracks from Folder A.
A: Clicked on the last track in the playlist from Folder A, clicked point on progress bar to last few seconds
G: Played through the last few seconds of last track from Folder A, then moved to first track from Folder B
A: Selected different tracks in the playlist from Folder B
G: Played selected tracks as expected 
A: Moved to end of last track of Folder B, selected point near for play to continue near the end
G: Played the last track from Folder B to its end and then stopped.

A: Opened Folder B again
G: Opened Folder B and appended its tracks in the playlist to the end of the list of tracks from Folder B that was already in the playlist. Tracks from Folder B were now in the playlist twice. GNMP then started playing the first track from Folder A again, that folders' tracks still being at the top of the playlist.

Note: it did not appear to be possible to clear the playlist unless by
opening the Playlist Pane and then deleting each track from the list
individually. The second time I tried to do this, I had to: select
track; click (-); select next track; click (-); select next tract... and
so on.

STAGE 3 - PROBLEMS WITH PLAYBACK
-----------------------------------------------------

A: Removed all tracks from the playlist
G: Removed all tracks from the playlist
A: Opened Folder C
G: Opened Folder C, appended it to blank playlist and started playing from the first track in folder C
A: Clicked on the last track and let it play to the end
G: Played Folder C's last track to its end and then stopped.

A: Removed all tracks from the playlist
G: Removed all tracks from the playlist
A: Opened Folder A again
G: Opened Folder A, appended its tracks to the blank playlist and started playing two tracks from Folder A simultaneously.
A: Pressed stop
G: Carried on playing one of the two tracks it had been playing from Folder A: it was playing track Track 2
A: Press play
G: Played Tracks 1 and 2 simultaneously again
A: Press pause
G: Started playing Tracks 3 and 4 simultaneously
A: Pressed next track
G: Started playing Track 5 but carried on playing Track 4 simultaneously
A: Pressed pause
G: Stopped playing Track 5 but carried on playing track 4. The display said Track 5 was selected but that music was not playing.
A: Let Track 4 play to the end
G: Got to end of Track 4, and started playing Track 1. The display refreshed to show that Track 1 was playing.
A: Pressed stop
G: Track 1 stopped playing. Display showed play stopped. No other tracks playing.
A: Left GNMP to play Folder A to its end
G: Played Folder A to its end and then stopped.

Note:

Before I started recording these steps I had done what I thought was
opening Folder A. GNMP played the first song from Folder A then stopped.
So looked at the playlist. Only the first track from Folder A was in the
playlist. So I opened Folder A again. It appended all the tracks from
Folder A after the last entry for Track 1 from Folder A. So Track 1 was
listed twice. It was at this point that I started recording the steps in
Stage 1.

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Title:
  GNOME Mplayer crashes on opening second music folder