Re: Somewhat reliable multimedia management for Emacs?

Yoni Rabkin <[email protected]> writes:

> [email protected] writes:
>

Thank you for your response.  I was writing for Arkadiusz
=C5=9Awi=C4=99tnicki, who had the questions that you responded to,
below.  Your message did not include Arkadiusz=E2=80=99s email
address in the reply that I received so I have included it
in the CC field of this email.

To Arkadiusz =C5=9Awi=C4=99tnicki, Yoni Rabkin is listed as the
current maintainer of EMMS and so should be highly capable
of answering your questions about it.  He also recorded a
38-minute talk about EMMS that you can listen to at the
following web address:

  https://emacsconf.org/2023/talks/emms/

>> Arkadiusz =C5=9Awi=C4=99tnicki <[email protected]> writes:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>> I am sorry if this question is unacceptable here. I am just a poor soul
>>> lost in the world of Emacs, please forgive and point me to an
>>> appropriate place instead.
>>>
>>> I am looking for a way to manage, and especially listen to my local
>>> music collection. I know EMMS exists but I have some issues with it
>>> which I cannot fix no matter how hard I try.
>>> 1. I cannot add my music collection to EMMS
>>> M-x emms-add-directory-tree
>>> ~/Muzyka
>>> Emacs responds
>>> "No first track"
>
> This is the typical response if no tracks were added.
>
> An Emms setup can be as simply as this (just an example):
>
>      (emms-all)
>      (setq emms-player-list '(emms-player-vlc)
>            emms-info-functions '(emms-info-native))
>
> What do you have?
>
>>> 2. If I play a file, I cannot control its volume separately from
>>> everything else
>
> Let's solve the above and then take care of the other issues.
>
>>> Even though I cannot import my whole collection, I can play single
>>> files. That's good enough, I suppose but I am not able to change the
>>> volume of just the music. I have to change the volume of the whole
>>> operating system, which is an unacceptable tradeoff for me as I am a
>>> blind user of Emacs, thus I need the separate control of the volume.
>>>
>>> Is there any hope for me in the Emacs multimedia management and
>>> playback space?
>
> We've all been playing collections of tens of thousands songs for many
> years now with Emms; no reason why you shouldn't be able to as well.

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