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diff --git a/doc/emms.texinfo b/doc/emms.texinfo index 4e8553f..1480eba 100644 --- a/doc/emms.texinfo +++ b/doc/emms.texinfo @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ @copying @copyright{} 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2014, - 2015, 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc. + 2015, 2016, 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc. @quotation Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or @@ -132,11 +132,9 @@ Extending Emms @cindex introduction -Emms is the Emacs Multi-Media System. It tries to be a clean and small -application to play multimedia files from Emacs using external -players. Many of its ideas are derived from -@uref{http://www.nongnu.org/mp3player, MpthreePlayer}, but it tries to -be more general and more clean. +Emms is the Emacs Multi-Media System. Emms organizes playlists, allows +browsing through track and album metadata, and plays files by calling +external players. This manual tries to be the definitive source of information about Emms, an online version of the manual is available at: @@ -229,7 +227,7 @@ 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 cahe, track by track, the filenames get replaced with the artist +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 @@ -246,9 +244,12 @@ basic commands (@pxref{Basic Commands}), the interactive playlists @cindex installation -You need to put all the .el files of emms in a directory in your -load-path. For example, if you put all those files into ~/elisp/emms/, -then in your ~/.emacs, you should do: +Emms is available via GNU ELPA, which takes care of all of the +following steps automatically. + +If you are installing Emms manually, you need to put all the .el files +of emms in a directory in your load-path. For example, if you put all +those files into ~/elisp/emms/, then in your ~/.emacs, you should add: @lisp (add-to-list 'load-path "~/elisp/emms/lisp/") @@ -810,7 +811,7 @@ Search for @var{regexp} and display the results in a locate buffer @cindex players, simple @defmac define-emms-simple-player name types regex command &rest args -Define a simple player with the use of `emms-define-player'. +Define a simple player. @var{name} is used to construct the name of the function like emms-player-@var{name}. @var{types} is a list of track types understood by this player. @var{regex} must be a regexp that matches |