Re: Somewhat reliable multimedia management for Emacs?

[email protected] writes:

> 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.

Thank you for clarifying, and apologies for sending the response to the
wrong person.

> 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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