[emms-help] Re: emms + last.fm?

[Michael Olson]

Yoni Rabkin Katzenell <address@hidden> writes:

> Jorgen Schaefer <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Yoni Rabkin Katzenell <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> The first is that without threading, you would have to let Emacs hang
>>> when connecting to the server at the beginning of each song. This may be
>>> a problem if there is something wrong with the connection.
>>
>> Emacs can do non-blocking connects, so this can be circumvented.
>
> I do non-blocking connects in emms-stream-info.el, with asynchronous
> replies and it might not be good enough. You might not block while
> waiting for an answer, but if sending your information in the first
> place hangs, there might be awkward pauses.
>
> I'd be glad to be proven wrong. After all, emms-stream-info.el does
> basically work.

I wonder if I should abstract some of the transaction queue stuff I
modified from tq.el (currently integrated into emms-player-mpd.el) and
turn it into emms-tq.el.  It seems like it would be useful in this
context.

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