Re: Playing over ssh

[Yuchen Pei]

Yuchen Pei <hi@ypei.me> writes:

> 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.

By tramp I mean external players ;)

> >


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Best,
Yuchen

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