Re: `emms-info-track-description'

[Yoni Rabkin]

"Fran Burstall (Gmail)" <fran.burstall@gmail.com> writes:

> I get the idea but personally find the new description too busy (and it
> took me a while to understand that I was seeing composers) and a bit long
> for mode-line display.

I'm sorry for the dis-improvement. In fact, that's what made me add the
patch that truncates the modeline once it gets too long. The composer
field also doesn't always make a lot of sense for contemporary
music. Most people want to know the name of the band and the name of the
song. The fact that, say, the drummer wrote the song is not critical to
them.

> But, as you say, this is super-easy to customize...

Yes, that is exactly my thinking. The basis for the change is that any
experienced Emms user would have either long-since customized their
track description, or would find doing so easy. New users, on the other
hand, need to be given good default.

Whether what I did is a good default is up do debate; and that debate is
valuable.

> ---Fran
>
>
>
> On Fri, 2 Feb 2024 at 21:29, Yoni Rabkin <yoni@rabkins.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> I've made small changes to `emms-info-track-description'. Please provide
>> feedback if you use that function.
>>
>> Keep in mind that these changes are there to hopefully improve Emms'
>> out-of-the-box experience, since many of the more experienced Emms users
>> have long since customized `emms-track-description-function' to their
>> liking.
>>
>> --
>>    "Cut your own wood and it will warm you twice"
>>
>>

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