The mpris branch has been there for a while, and I assume that you all have been using it.
Can I merge it into main so that the public at large can have a go at it? "Fran Burstall (Gmail)" <[email protected]> writes: > On Mon, 31 Oct 2022 at 13:36, Yoni Rabkin <[email protected]> wrote: > >> "Fran Burstall (Gmail)" <[email protected]> writes: >> >> > On Mon, 31 Oct 2022 at 12:05, Yoni Rabkin <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> >> >> >> Björn Bidar via <[email protected]> writes: >> >> >> >> > The emms manual mentions emms-dbus, where can I find that? >> >> >> >> That is just a reference to some code from someone's Emms config, and >> >> not any official package. >> >> >> >> > It would be really useful to have some kind of mpris integration >> >> > in emms. >> >> >> >> Shouldn't be too hard to implement in an Emacs with dbus. >> >> >> > >> > In fact, I have an implementation of mpris for emms that I was thinking >> > about contributing to emms. >> > >> > I hesitated because: >> > >> > 1. I thought it was an itch that only I wanted to scratch >> > 2. It is not a complete implementation of the mpris2 spec. You can use >> it >> > to play/pause/stop/next/previous/seek over mpris but not (for various >> > reasons) change things like LoopStatus/Shuffle/Volume. >> > >> > If you want it despite these limitations, let me know and I will push it >> to >> > the git repo. >> >> Please do, that would be great. >> >> Björn, would you be willing to test Fran's implementation once it is in >> the repo? >> >> -- >> "Cut your own wood and it will warm you twice" >> > > I have pushed emms-mpris.el to a new branch called mpris in the repo. > >>From the commentary: > > ;;; Commentary: > ;; This package provides a dbus interface to EMMS. > > ;; Usage: > ;; (require 'emms-mpris) > ;; (emms-mpris-enable) > > ;; Switch off with > ;; (emms-mpris-disable) > > ;; Caveats: this is not quite a complete implementation of the > ;; org.mpris.MediaPlayer2 and org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player interfaces > ;; (see > ;; https://specifications.freedesktop.org/mpris-spec/latest/index.html). > ;; What is missing: > ;; - Volume: this should be easy but there seems to be no way to get a > ;; simple percentage to report the volume---every emms-volume > ;; controller returns a string in a different format, sigh. > ;; - Shuffle > ;; - LoopStatus > ;; The issue with the last two is how to allow them to be set both > ;; over dbus and via lisp/emms-ui. I do not know how to do this in a > ;; simple way. > > I am very open to help in improving this! > > ---Fran -- "Cut your own wood and it will warm you twice"
