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EMMS --- The Emacs Multi-Media System -*-outline-*-
=====================================
* Introduction, Overview
========================
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 MpthreePlayer
(http://www.nongnu.org/mp3player), but it tries to be more general and
more clean.
The basic functionality of Emms consists of three parts: The core,
the sources, and the players.
The core resides in `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.
To get to tracks, the core needs sources. The 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. `emms-player-simple.el' defines a few useful
players, and allows you to define your own in a very simple way.
The way Emms works is easy to customize with your own code or by
using `M-x customize RET'.
* 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:
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/elisp/emms/")
For information about compiling Emms into byte-code see the
``Compiling Emms'' section in the Emms manual.
** Setup
--------
After adding the location of the Emms code to the load-path variable,
we invoke the following using the `emms-setup' feature which allows
for quick and simple Emms setup.
(require 'emms-setup)
(emms-standard)
(emms-default-players)
After which Emms is set-up and ready to go!
For more information about different setup levels and features see
the ``Simple Setup'' section of the Emms manual.
** Usage
--------
The basic functionality of EMMS is just to play music without being
noticed. It provides a few commands to skip the current track and
such, but otherwise, it doesn't show up. EMMS provides the following
basic user commands (that you might want to bind to keys):
emms-start ...... Start playing the current playlist
emms-stop ....... Stop playing
emms-next ....... Go to the next track in the playlist
emms-previous ... Go to the previous track in the playlist
emms-shuffle .... Shuffle the playlist
emms-show ....... What is playing?
But before you can use these, you need a playlist to start with. The
following commands allow you to create a playlist from different
sources:
emms-play-file ............. Play a single file
emms-play-directory ........ Play a whole directory
emms-play-directory-tree ... Play a directory tree
* The Interactive Playlist buffer
=================================
Emms provides a visual, interactive playlist mode as well as the
ability to use playlists without ever looking at them. This visual,
interactive mode is called the `emms-playlist-mode' and is defined in
`emms-playlist-mode.el'.
To use the interactive playlist invoke: `M-x emms-playlist-mode-go
RET'
When in the interactive playlist mode we can perform different
actions on the current playlist. Here are some basic commands:
`n'....Start playing the next track in the playlist.
`p'....Start playing the previous track in the playlist.
`s'....Stop playing.
`f'....Describe the currently playing track in the minibuffer.
`c'....Display the current track in the center of the screen.
`RET'..Start playing the track under point. Note that this is also
available with `Mouse-2'.
`q'....Put the interactive playlist buffer at the end of the list of
all buffers (i.e., bury it).
As always, for more commands see the mode documentation and the
``Interactive Playlists'' section of the Emms manual.
* Bare Bones Setup
==================
The following code fragment provides a minimal EMMS setup without
using the layer of `emms-default'. It can maybe be used to better
understand the internals of EMMS. You can see how EMMS needs to know
about players (these are defined in `emms-player-simple') and about
sources for tracks (trivial file system based sources, such as this
`emms-directory-tree', are defined in `emms-source-file').
(require 'emms-player-simple)
(require 'emms-source-file)
(require 'emms-source-playlist)
(setq emms-player-list '(emms-player-mpg321
emms-player-ogg123
emms-player-mplayer))
* Advanced configuration
========================
** Seeking
----------
In most multimedia players, you can seek forward or backward in a
track. EMMS supports this too. If you're using mplayer, check that
`emms-player-mplayer-parameters' contains ``slave''. If you're using
mpg321, there is a module called emms-player-mpg321-remote.el. To use
it, simply add the following lines to your configuration:
(require 'emms-player-mpg321-remote)
(push 'emms-player-mpg321-remote emms-player-list)
Finally, if you are using mpd, no special config is needed.
Seeking works through the following functions:
`emms-seek' which takes a negative or positive amount of seconds.
`emms-seek-forward' which seeks ten seconds forward.
`emms-seek-backward' which seeks ten seconds backward.
* Using libtag for reading tags
===============================
There is a way to read tags using Libtag as your backend for
emms-info. However, since it requires a binary file (source code
provided with EMMS), it isn't enabled by default. To compile it, type
``make emms-print-metadata''. To install it, either put
emms-print-metadata in your $PATH, or add EMMS' directory to Emacs'
exec-path. Since libtag overwrites most of the usual methods for
providing info, it's best to keep it as the only function in
`emms-info-functions'. Here's a way to do so:
(require 'emms-info-libtag)
(setq emms-info-functions '(emms-info-libtag))
* EMMS, Emms, emms, or what?
============================
In various contexts, this program is called EMMS, Emms or emms. Those
are all correct, and which one you use is a matter of personal
preference. EMMS highlights the acronym character of the name. Emms
is akin to Emacs and Gnus, ignoring that Emms is pronounced
ee-em-em-es, and not a single name. emms is highlighting that emms is
a case-sensitive file name and Emacs Lisp command.
* Getting help
==============
Emms has a mailing list at emms-help@gnu.org. To subscribe to it,
visit http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emms-help. If you are
familiar with the Gmane service, there is a Gmane newsgroup which
mirrors this mailing address at gmane.emacs.emms.user.
Emms also has a website at <http://www.gnu.org/software/emms/>.
* License
=========
EMMS is available under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
Please see the file COPYING for details.
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