Re: Playing over ssh

[Yuchen Pei]

On 28 September 2021 00:13:50 GMT+10:00, Mike Kazantsev <mk.fraggod@gmail.com> 
wrote:
>On Mon, 27 Sep 2021 10:08:26 -0400
>Greg Farough <gregf@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Sep 27 2021, Yuchen Pei <hi@ypei.me> wrote:
>> 
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I'd like to "get or create" the feature to play over ssh, which could
>> > be something like
>> > (emms-add-ssh ssh://user@host/path/to/media/file), where the same
>> > scheme is used by git when for ssh remote.  
>> 
>> This would be a neat feature. In lieu of one like it, I'm just
>> dropping into say that I use sshfs and dired for this, and it works
>> well.
>
>Yeah, same here, sftp (sshfs) is a great filesystem protocol,
>been using it instead of nfs/smb/cifs for more than a decade now,
>and would highly recommend to check it out instead.
>

Thanks for the suggestion. I did think of sshfs, but it has an extra dependency 
on the mount points.  When you have a native playlist you want to load on Emms 
on multiple machines, you have to make sure to mount the fs on all client 
machines, and all mount points are the same. And to change the mount points 
you'll have to change on all client machines and in the native playlist.  By 
contrast playing directly over ssh (probably with tramp) has no spurious 
dependencies like this.

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