Re: Adding a description text property for a track

[Yoni Rabkin]

Grant Shangreaux <grant@churls.world> writes:

> I know its been a while since this discussion started, but I'm only now
> getting through the emails.
>
>> Yuchen Pei <hi@ypei.me> wrote:
>
>>> How about we add a description text property to tracks
>
>>> The reason I'm proposing this is that:
>>> 
>>> 1. In my only usage of emms of playing urls over http / youtube-dl 
>>> / sftp, I can't seem to get any descriptions of any tracks for 
>>> display.
>
> i would also use it for this case. when i was working on the info
> editor, i allowed url types to be edited since it is nice to add info to
> it for the playlist interface. this does add an item into the emms
> cache, but there isn't anything to display this as a track in the
> browser.
>
> in this case i suppose it wouldn't need a new property for the track, it
> would just use the default emms info tags. it could be useful to add an
> alternative set of tags for urls if that makes sense.
>
>> Mike Kazantsev <mk.fraggod@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> And if a fixed one-liner description with some custom meaning is
>> needed, I'd think it'd make sense to have a custom info function to
>> interpret it somehow.
>
> Agreed, I think url track types could have their own info function.

The browser should display the cached information. If I add a youtube
link, name it "Wow Gosh Darn", invoke emms-cache-save, restart Emacs,
and add the same link again in a new Emacs session, then it will indeed
show up in the playlist as "Wow Gosh Darn". The browser should reflect
this.

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