From: Johnny <yggdrasil@gmx.co.uk>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: EMMS best practice, tag editing and fetching lyrics
Date: Sun, 20 May 2012 15:33:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871umeoray.fsf@gmx.co.uk> (raw)
Hi all,
I am (again) attempting to convert to using EMMS as a front end for mpd
instead of using ncmpcp, but am struggling to get a good setup and
efficient usage, and hence wonder how emacs users play their music
files?
I have been scavenging the net for some basics on emms and mpd, but
haven't been very succesful, hence this mail to see if I am missing some
essential sources.
I find ncmpcpp nice and full featured, with the (huge) drawback that the
keybindings are unintuitive from an emacs perspective - ideally
I'd like the same or similar features within emacs / EMMS.
Fetching lyrics
===============
ncpmcpp fetches lyrics from the web from a default set of locations. In
EMMS, this can (possibly) be done via emms-get-lyrics [1], via more
or less complex methods [2], but the "default" seems to be getting
lyrics from a local file (which is rarely / never present on my system)
[3]. I like the ncmpcpp way that "just works", what is the best practice
to achieve this in EMMS?
Tag editor refresh and Multiple genres
======================================
I haven't found a convenient way to edit tags in ncmpcp and envision
this should be nicely done in emacs through emms. The method I am using
is to mark a set of files in the playlist using 'emms-mark-forward' [4]
and then doing 'emms-tag-editor-edit-marked-tracks' and use the tag
editor for this. (any better practices?) After this the playlist is
messed up and I haven't yet found a way to redisplay the buffer?
Is there any way to specify multiple genres for a track, so that when
filtering by genres, the track shows up under multiple categories? [6]
Footnotes:
[1] http://emacswiki.org/emacs/emms-get-lyrics.el
[2] http://www.kipuamutay.com/en/blog/listeningInternetRadioWithLyricsFromCli.html
[3] http://www.gnu.org/software/emms/manual/Lyrics.html
[4] This function is not bound per default, which seems unintuitive,
but of course can be easily customised.
[6] This could probably be generalised for all fields, e.g. multiple
artists, but it may not even be desirable as the limitation seems to be
inherent in the mp3 format.
Cheers,
--
Johnny
next reply other threads:[~2012-05-20 14:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-20 14:33 Johnny [this message]
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2012-05-21 1:28 ` EMMS best practice, tag editing and fetching lyrics Stefan Monnier
2012-05-21 4:06 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2012-05-21 18:12 ` Johnny
2012-05-22 3:14 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2012-05-22 15:59 ` David Engster
2012-05-23 1:44 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2012-05-22 15:04 ` William Xu
2012-05-22 18:40 ` Johnny
2012-05-23 1:42 ` Eric Abrahamsen
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