Since deadbeef isn't available in the default repositories on Ubuntu, I'm switching to audacious. findplay() and findqueue() now support audacious.
May as well add the empty playlist stuff inline.  Maybe one day I'll just generate the empty playlist in /tmp or some such, so it's not cluttering my filesystem.  Meh.
Now with more bug testing!
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liferea
I'm no longer playing WoW.