From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: EMMS best practice, tag editing and fetching lyrics Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 12:06:01 +0800 Message-ID: <87mx526uvq.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1337573191 19870 80.91.229.3 (21 May 2012 04:06:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 04:06:31 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 21 06:06:30 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SWJt7-0001uq-PC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 May 2012 06:06:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38611 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SWJt7-0000qe-3Y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 May 2012 00:06:29 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:56569) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SWJt2-0000qJ-AM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 21 May 2012 00:06:25 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SWJsx-0001r2-Nb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 21 May 2012 00:06:23 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:37399) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SWJsx-0001qx-GX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 21 May 2012 00:06:19 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SWJsr-0001ZS-MR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 21 May 2012 06:06:13 +0200 Original-Received: from 114.250.123.57 ([114.250.123.57]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 21 May 2012 06:06:13 +0200 Original-Received: from eric by 114.250.123.57 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 21 May 2012 06:06:13 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 114.250.123.57 X-Pgp-Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=0xC98BAE7B99D0D373 X-Pgp-Fingerprint: 8E19 28A9 2B51 0C67 565D DB34 C98B AE7B 99D0 D373 User-Agent: Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/24.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:t7yn8By4TevvEVdAIfm5n7yDF6A= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:84913 Archived-At: On Mon, May 21 2012, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> 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? > > BTW, there are 2 more front ends in Emacs: mpc.el (bundled with Emacs > since Emacs-23 or so) and ampc.el (available in GNU ELPA). > > I'm the author of mpc.el and from the points you mention, I'd guess > mpc.el won't suit you (it doesn't even attempt to give you any kind of > tag-writing ability, it rather focuses on providing a browser to find > the music you want to play). Also Mingus! But, likewise, not particularly good for either of the OP's needs. No lyrics support, and tag editing that depends on an external library that I wasn't able to compile on my machine. But, for completeness' sake… -- GNU Emacs 24.1.50.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.10) of 2012-05-19 on pellet