Re: emms-info-native

[Yoni Rabkin]

David Engster <deng@randomsample.de> writes:

>> I’m planning to add support for ID3v2 (MP3s) later.
>
> Take a look at
>
> https://github.com/larsmagne/id3.el
>
> It's by Lars, one of the Emacs maintainers. It worked very well last
> time I tried it, and it's pretty fast, too.


I wrote to Lars and asked about it. Below the line is what I got back:
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> Yoni Rabkin <yoni@rabkins.net> writes:

> > id3.el (https://github.com/larsmagne/id3.el/blob/master/id3.el) came
> > up. How stable is it in reading (writing tags isn't a priority)? Any
> > catches in using it or comments about us taking it and adding it to
> > Emms?

> I've used id3.el extensively on my music collection without any
> problems, but the caveat there is that virtually all of it is
> hand-ripped by myself, so it's not a very diverse source of mp3s.

> > Like, for instance, do you have a shiny new version hidden on some
> > floppy disks you haven't released?

> Nope.  :-)  What's on github is the latest version, I think.

> I guess I should pack it up as an ELPA package or something.


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