Re: [emms-help] emms-stream-info-bookmark doesn't get any results

[Alex Kost]

Yoni Rabkin (2016-10-13 10:35 -0400) wrote:

> Julien Cubizolles <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Yoni Rabkin <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>>> querying stream...done
>>>> now playing: N/A on N/A, genre: N/A, bitrate: N/A
>>>
>>> I just tried it and got:
>>>
>>> querying stream...done
>>> now playing: Indie LoFi College on SomaFM presents: Indie Pop Rocks!
>>> [SomaFM], genre: Indie LoFi College, bitrate: Indie LoFi College
>>>
>>>> I'm running emms-20160801.1349 from melpa.
>>>
>>> I'm not involved with melpa. I tried it with the latest Savannah git.
>>
>> I tried emms from Savannah git and still got the N/A results. Maybe I'm
>> not using the right function in emms-info-functions:
>>
>>> emms-info functions: (emms-info-mpd emms-info-libtag).
>>
>> Which one do you have ?
>
> Getting info from a stream is a different thing than getting it from a
> file, so the info functions don't apply. The streaming info backend is
> determined by the variable `*emms-stream-info-backend*', which is set to
> mplayer in my case.
>
> I also note that while setting `*emms-stream-info-backend*' is mentioned
> in emms-stream-info.el, it isn't mentioned in the manual. I'll add it to
> the manual so people can do that in future.

Could you please remove '*' from this variable name?  Using * for global
variables is not an emacs convention.  Besides it's the only emms
variable that does it, I think it would be better to name it just
'emms-stream-info-backend' for consistency.

-- 
Alex