Re: How do I get the track info?

[Mike Kazantsev]

On Tue, 1 Sep 2020 20:14:57 +0200 (CEST)
Edgar Lux <edgarlux@mailfence.com> wrote:

> It seems that what was missing earlier (before we added emms-all) was
> (add-to-list 'emms-track-initialize-functions 'emms-info-initialize-track)
> (setq emms-track-description-function 'emms-info-track-description)
> 
> I have a shorter version now (more lines, but less code than
> emms-all). Anyone who is interested, can see it here:
> https://paste.ee/p/2Xklh
> https://web.archive.org/web/20200901181249/https://paste.ee/p/2Xklh

Note that if you use emms-player-mpv, you can also enable
emms-player-mpv-update-metadata to have metadata be read for
currently-played track by mpv player itself:

  (custom-set-variables '(emms-player-mpv-update-metadata t t))

It does apply only to currently playing track or stream, but that seem
to be what you're after (for displaying it in mode-line) anyway.


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