Re: integration with beets

[Yoni Rabkin]

Ian Eure <ian@retrospec.tv> writes:

> Yoni Rabkin <yoni@rabkins.net> writes:
>
>> Aleksas Tunikas <mail@aleksas.ru> writes:
>>
>>> I want to make the beets plugin 'play' to redirect the output to
>>> emms,
>>> by default it already do that, so I must have beed specifying it
>>> somewhere in my system, but it starts a new Emacs instance every
>>> time,
>>> what I want instead is that it utilize emacsclient, the syntaxis to
>>> put
>>> a custom command is like this: command: /usr/bin/command --option1
>>> --option2 some_other_option (from this
>>> https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/plugins/play.html) Or
>>> optionally maybe somebody knows where to change those default
>>> settings it appears to be related to the xdg-open explained here:
>>> https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/default_applications
>>>
>>> Meanwhile if I find the answer before somebody pointed out I will
>>> report
>>> here.
>>>
>>> Thank you and have a great day!
>>
>> I saw today on IRC that you were advancing with this. Definitely
>> send in
>> a recipe if you figure this out.
>>
>> However, it would also be good if you can list the features of beets
>> that you think are missing in Emms. Perhaps we can use that as a way
>> to
>> help roadmap tagging and library management in Emms.
>>
> IMO, MPD/EMMS and beets are complimentary -- they do very different
> things, in different ways.  I think some tighter integration might be
> nice, but I don’t think all the stuff beets does makes sense to have
> in EMMS.

The more I think about it, the more I agree. What would that integration
look like in your opinion?

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