[emms-help] Re: Poll: Remove playablep method from players?

[Michael Olson]

Jorgen Schaefer <address@hidden> writes:

> Idea:
>
>   We remove the `playablep' method from all players. The `start'
>   method then should do both of the jobs of `playablep' and
>   `start', by returning nil when it could not start a song, or t
>   when it could do so. Also, there'll be a new callback
>   `emms-player-failed' which will be called when the player
>   could not play the song, though it tried.

It would be very useful to have a player-failed callback, especially
for emms-player-mpd.  Also, having `start' perform both of these jobs
seems like the only way to make EMMS Do The Right Thing with players
that fail to play a track.

> This might complicate the implementation of players. Also, it will
> complicate emms.el since it has to store the not-yet-tried
> players.
>
> Opinions?

I am willing to extend emms-player-mpd.el to take advantage of this
new functionality.

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