[emms-help] Emms - the Emacs multimedia system

[Jorgen Schaefer]

Hello!
We would like to offer Emms, the Emacs Multimedia System, to be
included into the GNU system.

* General Information
** Do you agree to follow GNU policies?

Yes. (Surprising, isn't it?)

** Package name and version:

Emms, latest version being 1.3

(The name is case-insensitive; all of EMMS, Emms and emms have
been used in the past, and have different followers)

** Author Full Name <Email>:

Since the question is singular, I'll put only the principal author
there. A lot of code has been contributed by other people (see the
AUTHORS file).

Jorgen Schäfer <address@hidden>

** URL to home page (if any):

http://www.gnu.org/software/emms/

** URL to sources (if any):

Accessible via CVS from savannah:

export CVS_RSH="ssh"
cvs -z3 -d:ext:address@hidden:/cvsroot/emms co emms

The latest release should be available on the webpage, but has
been uploaded only recently. Luckily, you also have another
option:

http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/e/emms/emms_1.3.tar.gz
(or any other Debian mirror)

Of course, apt-get install emms works as well, if you have Debian.

** Brief description of the package:

EMMS is the Emacs Multi-Media System. It tries to be a clean and
small application to play multimedia files from Emacs using
external players.


* Code
** Dependencies:

GNU Emacs, and some kind of media player. By default, mpg321,
ogg123 and mplayer are supported

** Configuration & compilation:

This is an Emacs package. Put it in your `load-path', and read the
README for a sample configuration.

The Makefile install rule for site-wide installs has not been
tested except for the Debian package. A working "make install" and
"make uninstall" is intended to be included for the next release,
but is not seen as a high priority.

** Documentation:

Exists, written in Texinfo. There's of course the documentation
within Emacs as well.


* Licensing:

GPL.

We tried to get copyright assignments in, but that wasn't accepted
as the project isn't officially GNU yet (something we try to fix
now).


* Similar projects:

>From the README:

| Many of it's ideas are derived from MpthreePlayer
| (http://www.nongnu.org/mp3player), but it tries to be more
| general and more clean.

The motivation was to have a sensible interface to audio players,
and it turned out to be able to play movies, too.

The main difference to mp3player is that it has a much cleaner
design. It is, so to say, a continuation (though a rewrite from
scratch) of mp3player, not in competition to it.


* Any other information, comments, or questions:

Uhm.

(require 'praise-gnu)
(require 'praise-emacs)

Thanks!
     -- Jorgen

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