Manual now patched on the mpris branch and the extra require added. ---Fran
On Wed, 4 Jan 2023 at 19:10, Yoni Rabkin <[email protected]> wrote: > "Fran Burstall (Gmail)" <[email protected]> writes: > > > OK. Might take a day or two... > > That's fine. > > You should also add "(require 'url-parse)" so that gnu elpa auto-compile > won't complain about `url-type' and `url-filename' being missing. > > > > On Wed, 4 Jan 2023 at 17:10, Yoni Rabkin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> > >> Excellent, I'll do that. > >> > >> Can you please provide the text needed for the manual for this feature? > >> You can patch the manual in the mpris branch, but you can also just send > >> the text here and I'll add it to the manual. > >> > >> Thank you. > >> > >> > >> "Fran Burstall (Gmail)" <[email protected]> writes: > >> > >> > Well I have been using it every day for months so by all means merge > it > >> > into main as far as I am concerned! > >> > > >> > ---Fran > >> > > >> > On Wed, 4 Jan 2023 at 16:58, Yoni Rabkin <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > > >> >> > >> >> 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" > >> >> > >> > >> -- > >> "Cut your own wood and it will warm you twice" > >> > > -- > "Cut your own wood and it will warm you twice" >
