[emms-help] Re: Error: "Don't know how to play track"

[Jens Juul Christensen]

Yoni Rabkin Katzenell <address@hidden> writes:

> Jens Juul Christensen <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Don't know how to play track: 
> > (*track* (type . file) (name . myfile.ogg))")
> >   signal(error ("Don't know how to play track: (*track* (type . file) (name 
> > . myfile.ogg))"))
> >   error("Don't know how to play track: %s" (*track* (type . file) (name . 
> > "myfile.ogg")))
> >   (if (not player) (error "Don't know how to play track: %s" track) 
> > (funcall (emms-player-get player ...) track) (setq emms-player-playing-p 
> > player emms-player-paused-p nil) (run-hooks (quote 
> > emms-player-started-hook)))
> >   (let ((player ...)) (if (not player) (error "Don't know how to play 
> > track: %s" track) (funcall ... track) (setq emms-player-playing-p player 
> > emms-player-paused-p nil) (run-hooks ...)))
> >   (if emms-player-playing-p (error "A player is already playing") (let 
> > (...) (if ... ... ... ... ...)))
> >   emms-player-start((*track* (type . file) (name . "myfile.ogg")))
> >   (if emms-player-playing-p nil (emms-player-start 
> > (emms-playlist-current-selected-track)))
> >   (unless emms-player-playing-p (emms-player-start 
> > (emms-playlist-current-selected-track)))
> >   emms-start()
> >   emms-source-play(emms-source-file "myfile.ogg")
> >   emms-play-file("myfile.ogg")
> > * call-interactively(emms-play-file)
> >   execute-extended-command(nil)
> > * call-interactively(execute-extended-command)
> 
> Is the track you are trying to play really called "myfile"?

Nope :-)

I just removed a really long path and filename to make it more clear.

I tested with a valid file, infact many files to make sure it was not something
in the filename that made problems.

Thanks 

Jens