Re: emms-time-display-style

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After adding to config those lines:

(emms-cache 1)
(setq emms-info-functions '(emms-info-native))

it looks like this:

M-x emms-show-all     gives:

I also installed exiftool, actually  "apt install exiftool" installed libimage-exiftool-perl  (I'm on Debian testing)

And the time counter stays unchanged - no negative countdown despite 'downtime' style enabled.

regards!

On 14.10.2022 00:31, Yoni Rabkin wrote:

> "6ausoft@gmail.com" <6ausoft@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Thank you for prompt response!
> >
> > I tried on 3 different machines and different emacs distributions to
> > no avail.
> >
> > I tried gnu, melpa, git emms package - every time I get only counter
> > progressing as if the variable "Emms Playing Time Display Short P"
> > was set, but it is not.
> >
> > I don't even get the counter of a style like "01:23 / 05:48" but only
> > "01:23"
> >
> > [cid]                                                                                       >
> > Here's screen:
> >
> > Playing time style is set to "downtime" but the counter format stays
> > the same ( "01:23")  or in the case above ("00:09")
> >
> > [cid]   
> >
> > Any advice?
> >
> > regards!
> >
> > On 12.10.2022 22:38, Yoni Rabkin wrote:
> >
> >     "6ausoft@gmail.com" <6ausoft@gmail.com> writes:
> >     
> >     
> >         Hallo!
> >         
> >         I've been struggling for a while with getting the proper time display
> >         in emms and what I'm always getting is simply track time counter
> >         progressing (eg."01:20") not even the style of "01:30/4:20". Tried
> >         customize-group emms and setting the "downtime" value but it didn't
> >         work as didn't "bar" option.
> >         
> >         Tried spacemacs, doom emacs, vanilla - for no success.
> >         
> >         What am I doing wrong? Any suggestions appreciated.
> >         
> >         My emms config is like this:
> >         
> >         (add-to-list 'load-path (concat user-emacs-directory "emms-git/"))
> >         (load "emms")
> >         
> >     Emms is distributed via ELPA. I would warmly recommend installing it via
> >     "M-x list-packages"
> >     
> >     We try to keep the Savannah git repo clean, but that is where
> >     development happens. If you use Emms from there you will occasionally
> >     have stuff broken (unless you pull only from the latest tag.) If you
> >     aren't doing Emms development, I would recommend installing and updating
> >     Emms as an ELPA package instead.
> >     
> >     All that said, this shouldn't be where your issue is. A playing timer
> >     should appear if your setup is as simple as:
> >     
> >     "(emms-all)
> >     (emms-default-players)"
> >     
> >     
> >         (use-package emms-setup
> >          :init
> >          (add-hook 'emms-player-started-hook 'emms-show)
> >          (setq emms-show-format "Playing: %s")
> >           config
> >         (emms-standard)
> >         (emms-default-players))
> >         
> >         (require 'emms-setup)
> >         (emms-all)
> >         (emms-default-players)
> >         
> >     `emms-standard' is obsolete (has been marked as obsolete since Emms
> >     4.1), and in any case, calling `emms-all' afterward makes it moot.
> >     
> >     This is everything you need in order for Emms to display a timer. If it
> >     doesn't work at this point, we need to do more debugging.
> >     
> >     
> >         (emms-mode-line 1)
> >         (require 'emms-playing-time)
> >         
> >     `emms-all' calls (require 'emms-playing-time), so no need for this either.
> >     
> >     
> >         (emms-playing-time 1)
> >         (setq emms-source-file-default-directory "~/Music/"
> >               emms-playlist-buffer-name "*Music*"
> >               emms-info-asynchronously t
> >               emms-source-file-directory-tree-function
> >         'emms-source-file-directory-tree-find)
> >         (require 'emms-playing-time);
> >         
> >     ...and definitely no need to call it again.
> >     
> >     
> >         (setq emms-playing-time-display-short-p nil)
> >         (setq emms-playing-time-style 'downtime)
> >         
> >     Please try the above simple, two-line setup on an ELPA install, and tell
> >     us if it works, and we'll go from there.
> >       
> There may be nothing to display. Which is to say, you may have no info
> methods.
>
> Make sure that the cache is enabled. This should be the default, but we
> are being careful here:
> (emms-cache 1)
>
> Them make sure that you have a working info function:
> (setq emms-info-functions '(emms-info-native))
>
> Then load a playlist and see that you are getting the track, artist,
> album and etc., and not just a bunch of filenames. This means that you
> have the track info (such as the total playing time) and that should
> also be in stored in the cache.
>
> If you are still just getting filenames, then try one of the other info
> functions (the other info functions require installing the appropriate
> command-line tool, for example emms-info-exiftool requires exiftool to
> be present on the system.)
>
> Then try again and see where we get to.
>
>