From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Sound in Emacs Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2011 02:23:40 +0200 Organization: Programmerer Ingebrigtsen Message-ID: <878vp0z3oz.fsf@gnus.org> References: <4E8AAF3E.7050600@swipnet.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1317774244 14266 80.91.229.12 (5 Oct 2011 00:24:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 00:24:04 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 05 02:24:00 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RBFHE-0008CZ-7B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Oct 2011 02:24:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57485 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RBFHD-0008Sq-KY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Oct 2011 20:23:59 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:32987) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RBFHA-0008SZ-Ou for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Oct 2011 20:23:57 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RBFH9-0007TV-Cg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Oct 2011 20:23:56 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:33581) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RBFH9-0007TR-2m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Oct 2011 20:23:55 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RBFH7-0008By-8u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Oct 2011 02:23:53 +0200 Original-Received: from cm-84.215.51.58.getinternet.no ([84.215.51.58]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 05 Oct 2011 02:23:53 +0200 Original-Received: from larsi by cm-84.215.51.58.getinternet.no with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 05 Oct 2011 02:23:53 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cm-84.215.51.58.getinternet.no Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Playing: Various's _Bustin' Out 1983: New Wave To New Beat Volume 3_: "Front 242 - Take One" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.90 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:tC+TIRIWQ9fLFd2wB3o7v2o1WfI= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:144569 Archived-At: Tim Cross writes: > To answer the question whether to enhacne/extend sound support, we > probably need to define what we mean - do we mean better 'beeps' or do > we mean the ability to play mp3/ogg files form dired similar to how we > view images or do we mean something else. I'm not particularly interested in the `beep' case, but more interested in the dired case. But I'm not sure there's really a compelling case for incorporating such support in Emacs. I mean, all music I play go through Emacs, but use external programs for playing, and that works kinda OK. But if there were good decoding and outputting libraries available (and it's getting sort of unclear if there really are), then playing music though Emacs would Just Work instead of being something you'd have to work at to get. But it's like ImageMagick support. Does displaying images inside Emacs give you a better experience? I think it does. And I have a feeling the same would be the case with sound support. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/