Re: [emms-help] Emms and mpd

[David Engster]

David Engster <address@hidden> writes:
> AvataR <address@hidden> writes:
>> I just get latest emms update
>> (903e2484fa658eef9b4dc8bbd0bf4958f7233242), and mixing files for several
>> players now complitely broken, if basic player is mpd.
>>
>> I.e. i have players mpd and mplayer. I add to playlist mp3 files. All
>> ok. Then I add video to playlist. Now emms broken - I couldn't play mp3,
>> and couldn't play video. 
>
> I made several changes to emms-player-mpd.el, which should now hopefully
> correctly deal with tracks in the playlist not handled by mpd.

Thanks to the testing by the original poster (discussed off-list), I
think the code is now sufficiently stable. I used it now for some time
and didn't notice any serious issues. It's not yet perfect, but I think
it'd be good if the changes so far could be reviewed, before the
branches differ too much.

My changes are at git://randomsample.de/emms.git for review.  In
summary, they deal with the following issues:

* Exclude videos from being handled by mpd (configurable via
  `emms-player-mpd-ignored-extensions').  While mpd can handle those
  when compiled with ffmpeg support, it can only play sound, so they
  should be handled by other players.

* When calculating song numbers, deal with tracks in a playlist which
  are not handled by mpd but by other players.

* New feature to display playing-time, bitrate, song number and other
  data from a 'status' query.

Regards,
David