Re: Playing over ssh

[Yoni Rabkin]

Yuchen Pei <hi@ypei.me> writes:

> Mike Kazantsev <mk.fraggod@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Mon, 27 Sep 2021 10:08:26 -0400
>> Greg Farough <gregf@gnu.org> wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Sep 27 2021, Yuchen Pei <hi@ypei.me> wrote:
>>>  > Hello,
>>> >
>>> > I'd like to "get or create" the feature to play over ssh,  >
>>> which could
>>> > be something like
>>> > (emms-add-ssh ssh://user@host/path/to/media/file), where the  >
>>> same
>>> > scheme is used by git when for ssh remote.  
>>> This would be a neat feature. In lieu of one like it, I'm just
>>> dropping into say that I use sshfs and dired for this, and it works
>>> well.
>>
>> Yeah, same here, sftp (sshfs) is a great filesystem protocol,
>> been using it instead of nfs/smb/cifs for more than a decade now,
>> and would highly recommend to check it out instead.
>
> Actually the sftp scheme does work OOTB with emms:
>
> (emms-add-url "sftp://user@host/path/to/media_file";)
>
> turns out the emms-add-url is more universal than I thought and I can
> use it to add paths with a whole lot of different schemes (even
> file:// for local files), so I don't really need any other
> emms-add-foo at all!

Feel free to add a sentence or two in the manual to that effect.

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