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diff --git a/doc/emms.texinfo b/doc/emms.texinfo index 1480eba..840e38c 100644 --- a/doc/emms.texinfo +++ b/doc/emms.texinfo @@ -143,22 +143,22 @@ Emms, an online version of the manual is available at: The basic functionality of Emms consists of three parts: The core, the sources, and the players. -The core resides in @file{emms.el}, and provides a simple playlist and the -basic functionality to use all the other features of Emms. It provides -the common user commands and interfaces for other parts. It thinks in -tracks, where a track is the combination of a type and a name - e.g. -the track type 'file has a name that is the file name. Other track -types are possible. +The core resides in @file{emms.el}, provides a simple playlist, and +the basic functionality to use all the other features of Emms. It +provides the common user commands and interfaces for other parts. It +thinks in tracks, where a track is the combination of a type and a +name - e.g. the track type 'file has a name that is the file +name. Other track types are possible. To get to tracks, the core needs sources. The file @file{emms-source-file.el} provides simple sources to interact with the file system. When Emms finally has the sources in the playlist, it needs a player -to play them. @file{emms-player-simple.el} defines a few useful players, and -allows you to define your own in a very simple way. +to play them. @file{emms-player-simple.el} defines a few useful +players and provides a straightforward way of providing your own. -The Emms core comes with many additional features to extend its -functionality. +The Emms comes with many additional features to extend the +functionality beyond the core. The way Emms works is easy to customize with your own code or by using `M-x customize' or by changing the variables directly. @@ -172,7 +172,8 @@ This chapter demonstrates how to setup Emms so that you can start listening to your music without having to read all of the documentation first. This is the tl;dr version of the manual. -The first thing you have to do is telling Emacs where Emms is +The first thing you do is to load Emms via GNU ELPA. But if you are +installing manually, then start by telling Emacs where Emms is located. Let's say you have it in @file{~/elisp/emms/}. So add this line to your @file{.emacs}: @@ -185,7 +186,7 @@ installation chapter, @xref{Installation}. You'll then want to load Emms into Emacs. To achieve this you invoke the @code{emms-all} setup function by adding the following three lines -to your @file{.emacs}. +to your Emacs initialization file. @lisp (require 'emms-setup) @@ -208,16 +209,16 @@ the name of the file) of the music you listen to. Emms can use a number of pieces of software and libraries as sources for track info, see @xref{Track Information} for more. -The last thing to do is to tell Emms where your music is; the root +The last thing to do is to tell Emms where is your music; the root directory of our music collection. Let's say all your music is in -@file{~/Music} or in subdirectories thereof. +@file{~/Music} or in subdirectories thereof: @lisp (setq emms-source-file-default-directory "~/Music/") @end lisp -OK, now we've set up Emms. Reload your @file{.emacs} or restart Emacs to -let the changes have an effect. +OK, now we've set up Emms. Reload your Emacs initialization file or +restart Emacs to let the changes have an effect. Now we will add all our music to a playlist by invoking @kbd{M-x emms-add-directory-tree RET ~/Music/ RET}. We do this because then @@ -226,9 +227,9 @@ is also required for the Emms browser, @xref{The Browser}.) To switch to the playlist buffer, invoke @kbd{M-x emms-playlist-mode-go} or simply @kbd{M-x emms}. You may see that some -tracks are displayed with their file name, but as Emms populates its -tag cache, track by track, the filenames get replaced with the artist -and track name of the file's tag. +tracks are displayed with their file name, but as Emms asynchronously +populates its tag cache, track by track, the filenames get replaced +with the artist and track name of the file's tag. Go ahead and navigate to a track and hit @kbd{RET} on it to start playback. |