Re: streams and metadata

"Fran Burstall (Gmail)" <[email protected]> writes:

>>
>> Can you please open a branch with this code in it so that we can test
>> and try it out easily?
>
>
> Yup: the 'radio-browser' branch should be ready for testing now.

The feature looks great, but I get a compilation error:

    "emms-radio-browser.el:336:2: Error: Need command, got ‘:info’"


> On Sat, 11 Jan 2025 at 19:33, Yoni Rabkin <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> "Fran Burstall (Gmail)" <[email protected]> writes:
>>
>> > I started to play with the https://www.radio-browser.info API and built
>> a
>> > radio station browser for EMMS which I attach.
>> >
>> > There are three entry points
>> >
>> > emms-radio-browser-search-by-name
>> > emms-radio-browser-search-by-url
>> > emms-radio-browser-full-search
>> >
>> > All search the radio-browser database and return a playlist of results.
>> > The last of these needs the (built-in since v28.1) transient package.
>> >
>> > It has only been lightly tested.
>> >
>> > If you think this is a worthwhile addition to EMMS, I can add it to the
>> git
>> > repo and write some documentation...
>> >
>> > ---Fran
>>
>> I think that sounds good; thank you for working on this.
>>
>> Can you please open a branch with this code in it so that we can test
>> and try it out easily?
>>
>>
>> > On Thu, 26 Dec 2024 at 17:11, Fran Burstall (Gmail) <
>> [email protected]>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >> I have been playing with emms-streams and with
>> >>
>> >>    (setopt emms-player-mpv-update-metadata t)
>> >>
>> >> it is very capable.
>> >>
>> >> One mild pain point however is that adding a new stream with
>> >> 'emms-add-streamlist' and friends gives a streamlist with less
>> information
>> >> than the built-in streamlists: it lacks the metadata field which is
>> useful
>> >> for getting the station name (which can then be fed to a
>> track-description
>> >> function to make for a more informative display in the playlist buffer).
>> >>
>> >> Of course, one can populate such a field by hand and this is what I have
>> >> been doing but There Must Be A Better Way.  This is the sort of thing
>> that
>> >> the unimplemented emms-streams-info.el could be doing but I understand
>> that
>> >> querying the url for such information is a bit of a nightmare (does the
>> >> stream have ICY tags etc).  There have been previous discussions on this
>> >> list about this.
>> >>
>> >> However, there seems to be an alternative:
>> https://www.radio-browser.info
>> >> is a free (as in freedom, as far as I can tell) repository of station
>> >> information with an API.  Perhaps one could query this to get metadata
>> >> about the stream?
>> >>
>> >> One could also imagine other uses of this data like a radio station
>> >> browser in EMMS or being able to add streams by name rather than url...
>> >>
>> >> Thoughts?  Worth pursuing?
>> >>
>> >> ---Fran
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>>
>> --
>>    "Cut your own wood and it will warm you twice"
>>

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