Re: Anyone using score in EMMS?

I use it to rank popularity of my tracks. +1 on completing a playback.
+2 if the playback was started by a deliberate <RET> in the playlist. A
command my-emms-wrapped to show top-N scored tracks

On Mon 2026-08-17 16:34:31 -0400, Yoni Rabkin wrote:

> Igor Sosa Mayor <[email protected]> writes:

>> Hi,

>> is anyone using the score functionality in EMMS?

> I've personally never used it.

>> If yes, how do you use it?

> Oddly, it isn't mentioned in the documentation. But here are the
> instructions from the `emms-score.el' file:

> ;; * How to use scoring in emms
> ;;
> ;; When you load emms, you are set to a default mood
> ;; 'emms-default-mood' A mood is a one word string describing how
> ;; you feel (like "funny", "tired", "aggresive"...)  Each mood have is
> ;; own set of scoring rules.
> ;;
> ;; You can change your mood with M-x emms-score-change-mood.
> ;;
> ;; Every music file start with a default score of 0 the command
> ;; emms-score-up-playing and emms-score-down-playing modify the
> ;; score of the file you are curently listening by 1 In addition,
> ;; skipping a file (with emms-skip) automaticaly score the file
> ;; down.
> ;;
> ;; With scoring on (this mean the variable emms-use-scoring is t),
> ;; emms will compare the score of the file with your tolerance to
> ;; decide if it is played or not.
> ;;
> ;; The default tolerance level is 0 (or the variable
> ;; emms-score-min-score).  This mean files with a score of 0 or more will
> ;; be played and files with a score of -1 or less will be skipped.
> ;;
> ;; You can change the tolerance (by 1) with M-x
> ;; emms-score-lower-tolerance and M-x
> ;; emms-score-be-more-tolerant
> It would be great if you tried it out and report if it works or not.


Best,
Yuchen

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