Re: [emms-help] Two new EMMS functions

[Ian Dunn]

Yoni Rabkin <address@hidden> writes:

>
> I like the idea behind `emms-select-playlist-track'. But I can see
> renaming it to something like `emms-play-playlist-track' because it
> actually plays the track.
>

    That makes sense.

> However, I would change it so it doesn't create yet another copy of the
> playlist as a hash-table which now needs to be kept synchronized. The
> playlist-mode buffer is already a data structure and it's unclear how
> long the playlist would need to be in this case in order to be slower
> than a hash-table.
>

    The purpose of the hash table in emms-select-playlist-track (or 
emms-play-playlist-track, as it may be) is to present the user with an 
understandable representation of each track.  I chose to use the description as 
a key and the position as the value simply because that seemed easier at the 
time.

  I realize that the tracks themselves are data structures, but I'm not sure 
that's going to help this function.  I see emms-player-start, which takes a 
track, but it looks like it doesn't select the track, rendering the mode-line 
and playlist buffer both useless, as they will have the wrong track selected.  
I am only just learning about emms-player-start and this problem.  Is there a 
better way to do this in EMMS?

-- 
Ian Dunn