awesome, thanks! that did it.

no, i haven't put hijack back on yet after the rebuild, but i'm going to do that now.

I just went back to narrow down this problem, and here's what i've found:

i added every single visual to my favorites INCLUDING 'off' then it worked.

removed everything BUT 'off' then it still works.

removed 'off' it still works.

added back 'off' as the only favorite and after a mysterious media scan, it still works.


so at this point, everything works - including 'off' both selected manually or added to the visual favorites list. the ONLY thing i've done since it was failing is to run 'player -i'...is there any chance this could have 'fixed' something??