Re: Recovering playback state of multiple playlists and over multiple sessions

[Yoni Rabkin]

Yuchen Pei <hi@ypei.me> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I often have several long playlists of spoken words, mostly conference
> talks and lectures, and I wonder how I can resume where I left from
> last time.  I have them all saved in native playlist files, and load
> them manually when I start an emacs session.
>
> There are two problems:
>
> 1. Say I have two playlists A and B, A is at track 42 at 23:00 and B
> is at track 73 at 87:32.  I just paused track 42 of A and would like
> to resume track 73 of B.  How do I do that?  If I navigate to B and
> press RET (emms-playlist-mode-play-smart) or invoke
> (emms-playlist-mode-play-current-track), track 73 will start from 
> the beginning, rather than 87:32.  If I navigate to B and press P,
> track 42 of A will resume.  I also tried switching to playlist B 
> at the metaplaylist first, but that did not seem to help either.
>
> 2. Say I have one playlist A at track 42 at 23:00.  How do I save it,
> close emacs and resume at track 42 at 23:00 next time I open emacs and
> load the playlist?  I tried saving the playlist as a native playlist,
> but when I load it starts from track 1 again.

`emms-bookmarks' has code to support this, but it isn't extensively
developed because this is an edge case and doesn't come up very often. I
have used `emms-bookmarks' in the (far) past and I remember it working
well enough at the time.

One of my uses for Emms is to watch video's stored on my disk, and many
of them are very long (6 or 4 hour endurance races). In that case I use
the mpv backend with its save-position-on-quit option, so both saving
and continuation is handled outside of Emms.

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