Re: Tracker/sequencer file formats in emms-player-mpv filename regex

[Yoni Rabkin]

Mike Kazantsev <mk.fraggod@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Mostly I've only been using emms to play very common mp3/ogg files, or
> occasionally internet-radio streams, but recently downloaded a pack of
> keygen music files in tracker/sequencer midi-ish formats, and of
> course it (and its ffmpeg base) handles those just fine as well.
>
> I've added those to 'regex in emms-player-mpv in my config like this:
>
>   (emms-player-set emms-player-mpv 'regex (apply
>     #'emms-player-simple-regexp (append emms-player-base-format-list
>     '("xm" "mod" "it" "mid" "v2m" "ym" "s3m" "sid" "ahx" "fc13" "fc14"
>     "sap" "rad" "hsc" "sc68" "d00" "amd" "bp" "spc" "nsf" "mtm"
>     "mo3"))))
>
> Normally, I'd think expanding that parameter in upstream emms might be
> a good idea too, as why not make it work for someone else
> out-of-the-box as well...
>
> But given rather large degree of obscurity and variety of these old
> file formats nowadays, I think there's high chance that simply no one
> else uses them anymore, and adding so many weird extensions seems like
> a good way to bump into them matching random other non-media files
> too, unnecessarily.
>
> So wanted to ask if maybe anyone else added (some of) those to local
> 'regex config as well, or maybe knows of other good reason to add them
> there regardless?
>
> If not, I think it's probably best to leave such one-off obscure
> use-case to individual tweaks, and stick with common formats in
> defaults.

I think that adding these shouldn't be an issue. If someone points Emms
at a directory with a bunch of files then they should expect that Emms
will try to read the files therein.

However, it would be nice if the code had a comment explaining what
those files are to people who are looking at it and wondering what, for
instance, a "d00" file could possibly be.

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