Remember how I said I assumed the forking code was fine? Well, I grabbed your latest code posting, and to my surprise, it wouldn't run! After some more debugging (looks like I'm reading more code than I'm writing lately) I think I've found a contention issue (not really sure)...anywho: 
else
{
 #i'm the parent!
 warn "(Parent) I'm the parent\n";
 #who connected?
 warn "(Parent) Connecton recieved ... ",$connection>peerhost,"\n";

 #close the connection, the parent has already passed
 #   it off to a child.
 warn "(Parent) Closing connection\n";
 sleep 3;
 $connection->close();
}

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Those extra warn statements lead me to believe that the parent was closing the $connection before the child got to call play_songs hence the sleep call. I chose "3" randomly, but it works fine now, and the sleep doesn't affect any of the logic or flow. Brainiac

In reply to Re: Re: Re: RE(4): MP3 server with IO::Socket by brainiac
in thread MP3 server with IO::Socket by perlmonkey

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