Re: Grid thumbnail arrangement of a playlist

[Yuchen Pei]

I'd like to report what I've done regarding this, which also serves as a "bookmark", in case I shelf it for a while.

Yoni Rabkin <y...@rabkins.net> writes:

Yuchen Pei <y...@gnu.org> writes:

With this one can listen to radio or watch TV with emms with a nicer

interface.

Emms' playlist is an advantage and my preference.

That's a subjective statement. For me, the purely textual interface of

So kind of like image-dired thumbnail mode.

Never used it, but I can readily imagine what it probably looks like.

emms can already play url streams, so that's not a problem.

I imagine the change could be as simple as


specified

1. representing a track by an image, or a default image if none is

modified   emms-playlist-mode.el
@@ -470,9 +470,15 @@ This preserves the current EMMS buffer."

  (emms-playlist-ensure-playlist-buffer)
  (emms-with-inhibit-read-only-t
-   (insert (emms-propertize (emms-track-force-description track)
-                            'emms-track track
-                            'face 'emms-playlist-track-face))
+   (if (emms-track-get track 'thumbnail)
+       (insert (emms-propertize
+               (emms-track-force-description track)
+               'emms-track track
+               'face 'emms-playlist-track-face

+                               'emms-track track
+                               'face 'emms-playlist-track-face)))
   (when (emms-playlist-selected-track-at-p)
     (emms-playlist-mode-overlay-selected))
   (if no-newline

I have more or less implemented a way to do this (sans the default image part), by adding a display text property in (defun emms-playlist-mode-insert-track (track &optional no-newline): When NO-NEWLINE is non-nil, do not insert a newline after the track." + 'display (create-image (emms-track-get track 'thumbnail)))) + (insert (emms-propertize (emms-track-force-description track) You can try it out by adding a thumbnail text property a string of path to the image file.

2. instead of a list of things representing tracks, display them in a grid, and the selection can move horizontally as well as vertically

modified   emms-playlist-mode.el

                            'face 'emms-playlist-track-face))
   (when (emms-playlist-selected-track-at-p)
     (emms-playlist-mode-overlay-selected))
-   (unless no-newline
+   (if no-newline
+       (insert " ")
     (insert "\n"))))

(defun emms-playlist-mode-update-track-function ()

This one is harder to do. To get a horizontal play list of tracks, one could insert a space after the track when inserting a track to a playlist, i.e. in (defun emms-playlist-mode-insert-track (track &optional no-newline): @@ -475,7 +475,8 @@ When NO-NEWLINE is non-nil, do not insert a newline after the track." What remains is to turn it into a grid i.e. adding tracks horizontally *and* vertically.

I would be interested in implementing it.

What do you think?

repo for it.

I see no reason why not. It could be called emms-browser-tiled.el or similar, since it is conceptually a type of browser and would probably lean on browser code. Please feel free to add a branch on the Savannah

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Best,
Yuchen

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Thanks. So far it looks to me like one should reuse the existing playlist code, which is why I haven't created a new emms-browser-tiled.el. It is still WIP so I'm not sure if I should push it to a branch.

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