Hmm, are you sure that was the problem. I always have autoplay for the main player enabled and have no problems.
yes, It only plays the music with autoplay disabled.
the relevant portion in ~/.pytone/pytonerc :
[player.main] autoplay = false
#type = internal #driver = alsa #device = default #bufsize = 100 #crossfading = off #crossfadingstart = 5 #crossfadingduration = 6
#type = xmms #session = 0 #noqueue = false
#type = mpg123 #cmdline = /usr/bin/mpg321 --skip-printing-frames=5
type = internal driver = oss device = /dev/dsp bufsize=100 #crossfading=off
[player.secondary] autoplay = true type = off