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Emms describes itself as: =========================== The Emacs Multimedia System =========================== More at https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/emms.html ## Summary: Emms is the Emacs Multimedia System. Emms displays and plays multimedia from within GNU/Emacs using a variety of external players and from different sources. Emms can run as a minimalist player and controlled with a handful of M-x Emacs commands, or a fully-fledged, interactive media browser. Emms can display album art, play streaming audio, tag music files, search for lyrics, provide MPD connectivity, control the volume, and more. Please read the info fine manual which is shipped with Emms and available in the doc directory. We do our best to make sure that it's up to date and informative. ## Recent NEWS: New in 18 * emms-player-mpv.el: remove emms-player-mpv-ipc-conn-emacs-26.1-workaround. * emms-player-mpv.el: remove long-deprecated --input-file=fifo support. * emms-playlist-mode.el: shift a track up or down by a line. * emms-playlist-limit.el: add limiting to note. New in 17 * Automatic detection of existing players via `emms-setup-discover'. * Autodetect GNU find. * Native decoding of playing time for `emms-info-native'. * Add info support for SNES SPC files. New in 16 * emms-info-ogginfo: Avoid writing ogginfo tags over 1k. * emms-streams.el: Updated URLs, avoid early loading errors. * emms-player-mpd.el: Use native relative seeking. * emms-player-mpd.el: Fix consume and random modes in MPD. New in 15 * emms-source-playlist.el: add native playlist to cache. * emms-mpris.el: add shuffle and loopstatus. * emms-mpris.el: fix artUrl metatadata issues. * emms-volume-pulse.el, emms-volume-amixer.el, emms.el: unified `get' interface. * emms-mark.el: fix bug when setting `emms-playlist-default-major-mode'. * emms-playlist-mode.el: Do not run `emms-playlist-mode' at the wrong time. * emms-browser.el: Fix bug in emms-browser-format-spec. * Documentation improvements and updates. New in 14 * emms.el: Fix emms-seek-* functions to work with number arguments. * emms-mpris.el: Fix Seek and SetPosition methods, implement Properties.GetAll method. New in 13 * emms-mpris.el: provides a dbus interface to EMMS. * quickstart section in the manual has been improved. New in 12 * emms-volume-pulse.el: Try to find the default sink. * `emms-setup-discover-players' automatic player discovery. * emms.el: reverse the order players are collected. * emms-browser.el: tab now toggles subitems. * emms.el: accept timestamps in emms-seek*. * emms-playlist-mode.el: Prefer using dired-jump. * emms-playlist-mode.el (emms-playlist-mode-goto-dired-at-point): Use dired-jump, optionally opening the dired buffer in other-window. New in 11 * Bug fix: emms-info-exiftool.el now handles numeric song titles gracefully. * Cache is now saved after tag editing. * Minor bug fixes in emms-tag-editor.el and emms-streams.el. New in 10 * emms-player-mpv.el: bug fixes and improvments (details in VC history). * emms-player-mpd.el: bug fixes and improvments (details in VC history). New in 9 * emms-player-mpd.el: playing order fix. New in 8 * emms-player-mpv.el: graceful handling of no icy-title. * Prune defuct streams from the list. * Notify if `emms-player-list' is empty. New in 7.8 * Fix to Libre.FM scrobbing. * Multiple improvements to emms-player-mpv.el. New in 7.7 * Add sndioctl support. * Use thing-at-point for URLs. * Add player-preference interface. New in 7.6 * Change the way we write the NEWS file: "New in..." instead of "News since...". * emms-player-mpv.el: Fix customize. * Document how `emms-player-mpv-update-metadata' works. * emms-player-mpd: fix caching behavior. News since version 7.4 - emms-player-mpv.el: fix reconnect-playback-restart issue. News since version 7.3 - emms-player-mpv.el: explicitly unpause after switching to a new track. News since version 7.2 - Add support for the audiotools tracktag executable. - Errors reading track metadata no longer stalls building the playlist. News since version 7.1 - Make it possible to force-update Emms cache. - Myriad bug fixes and code improvements. - Move jack.el into the Emms namespace. News since version 7.0 - Add authinfo support for libre.fm streaming. - Allow easily disabling the icon in the modeline. News since version 6.3 - Native reading of file metadata via emms-info-native. - emms-tag-editor: add pipe capability. - Compatibility with lexical scoping. - Improvements to the fine manual. News since version 6.2 - Updated documentation ... ...
