Re: [emms-help] Problems getting emms-player-mpd working, and solutions

[Alexis]

Yoni Rabkin writes:

> Done, thank you.

Great, thanks!

>>>> 2. To add all music in my MPD database, such that it was listed in
>>>> the EMMS Browser, i needed to create an active MPD playlist
>>>> containing all music (which i did via ncmpcpp), /then/ do
>>>> emms-add-directory-tree on my Music folder. Unless there's some way
>>>> of building the EMMS track cache directly from the MPD database,
>>>> that i've missed?
>
> I've pushed this issue onto my Emms hacking stack (but I won't be
> angry at all if you beat me to it.)

:-) i'm currently preparing an Emacs package of mine for general
release, but i'll try to find some time to research a solution to this
issue .... i imagine it will probably involve issuing 'list' commands to
the MPD process, and building the track cache from that (e.g. sending
"list artist" to get a list of the artists in the database, then
iterating over that list and calling "list album artist [artist name]"
on each iteration to get a list of each artist's albums, etc.)


Alexis.