/**
* the init function of the mysql-based audio file selector
*
- * Check the command line options and initialize all function pointers of \a db.
- * Connect to the mysql server and initialize the info string.
+ * \param db pointer to the struct to initialize
+ *
+ * Check the command line options and initialize all function pointers of \a
+ * db. Connect to the mysql server and initialize the info string.
+ *
+ * \return This function returns success even if it could not connect
+ * to the mysql server. This is because the connect is expected to fail
+ * if there the paraslash database is not yet created. This gives the
+ * user a chance to send the "cdb" to create the database.
*
* \sa struct audio_file_selector, misc_meta_data::selector_info,
* random_selector.c