I agree with that. I've got a USB Sound device. Sometimes when booting the PC the device is not properly detected and by playing a playlist will also make MM loop infinetly by which I need to end the MM Process.

So if a playlist consists of all dead tracks or now output audio available then MM should make me aware of the issue instead of trying to play.

IMO, default action on inacessible music should be like in WMP. If MediaMonkey try to play let's say ~25 songs and they're all dead links, MediaMonkey's playback should stop and the user be notified of the problem with a dialog.

Clicking Stop button (e.g. Now Playing window -> Play Controls toolbar ->the red stop button) stops the looping on the deadlinks.
Its default shortcut is Ctrl+O

Alternativelly Previous button works for me too in order to stop the looping. (Ctrl+B)

i had the same problem with previous mm3 builds...it never did that... if it came to the end it would stop...now it loops over and over until you do something about it.

What you can do is turn off the Continuous button or add the confirmation that the track you want to play is unavailable (all this is available in the options in mm)

But that still doesnt fix the problem... because mm never did that before!

I did this again today - again an infinite loop in the now playing list until I restored the music by turning on the hard drive.

I do this enough that I no longer use /NOSPLASH /PLAY, and I normally think about it before I start playing.

Today though, I hit play by hand with the hard drive off. Boom - infinite loop.

But what if I didn't have my hard disk available to turn on?

Is there some way to make MM stop looping on a dead playlist, or is this really just a big infinite loop???

This is really a user ISSUE, but it does cause Mediamonkey to infinite loop.

I forgot to turn on my external hard drive which has all my music. I already had a playlist in Mediamonkey and start the program with /NOSPLASH /PLAY

When Mediamonkey begins, it finds all the playlist is dead links. It then tries to load the playlist over and over, never finding a song that it can actually play. This can only be stopped with a ctrl/alt/delete shutdown of mediamonkey.

To get around this: turn on the hard drive to make the music available.

I THINK this loop occurred even without the command line parameters, but I'm not totally sure.