From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hadron Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emms help Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2007 07:56:14 +0100 Message-ID: <87k5xxwl81.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87vehldjxb.fsf@gmail.com> <1172801099.929689.71570@h3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> <87k5y0guzb.fsf@gmail.com> <87odnbv0mb.fsf@baldur.tsdh.de> <87tzx3m3zg.fsf@gmail.com> <87y7meuzcn.fsf@baldur.tsdh.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1172994068 2892 80.91.229.12 (4 Mar 2007 07:41:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2007 07:41:08 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 04 08:41:01 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HNlL2-0005Th-P9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Mar 2007 08:41:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HNlL2-00088a-B1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Mar 2007 02:41:00 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newshub.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 55 Original-X-Trace: individual.net QDAjUwvlTX3dDuXwqt5VRg69AECOtoI40NTfiLm0datpOu23Vt X-Orig-Path: news.individual.net!news X-Face: 2h#||Cd#d%F*NCm59[_6/{1a@jy%; |j>{D~4^gKg(^i%7j0IK?+,/GmW&:CD5fEKb_! User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:0JII6w+fMyowNiEZQ8JBG6yoIYc= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:146032 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:41637 Archived-At: Tassilo Horn writes: > Hadron writes: > > Hi Hadron, > >> Your translation/dict stuff is still going strong. > > Thanks! > >> How about a "how to"? >> >> Obvious stuff like : Here is my music, how do I get emms to see it and >> allow me to make a playlist? > > Hm, yeah. That's mentioned in Basic Commands, but it probably gets lost > in the listing of all those function. > >> It took me half a day to realise that the reason that it didnt work at >> all was down to its default player list! Even though I had mplayer, it >> fell over when the first one in the list wasnt available. > > That's a bug or the file you wanted to play was not playable by all > other players. > >> emms-browser : how does one use it? I open it and look at an empty >> buffer! > > ,----[ (info "(emms)The Browser") ] > | To be properly useful, you should do M-x `emms-add-directory-tree' > | to all the files you own at least once so that the cache is fully > | populated. > `---- > > I guess you use emms-2.1, so maybe the docs have improved in the > meantime. But a quickstart guide really should be included. Yup. In emacs world, people sometimes forget the little guy and the fact that not everyone has the time or patience to read a whole lisp manual to do something as mundane as expect a function called "emms-browser" to actually "browse" the top level of a directory tree. Someone recommended another player (coco?) but the first thing it expected was all my music files to include artist-album-song information in the file name! Also words like "should" need to be replaced with "must" :) Anyway, regards h. > > Bye, > Tassilo --