Re: emms-time-display-style

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    On 14.10.2022 20:53, Yoni Rabkin wrote:
> "6ausoft@gmail.com" <6ausoft@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > After adding to config those lines:
> >
> > (emms-cache 1)
> > (setq emms-info-functions '(emms-info-native))
> >
> > it looks like this:
> >
> > [cid]                                                                                
> >
> >
> > M-x emms-show-all     gives:
> >
> > [cid]                                        
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >       
> If you are on a track in the playlist, and you evaluate:
> (emms-playlist-track-at (point))
>
> Do you see an `info-playing-time' in the output association list?
>
> Is this the same if you reset the cache (emms-cache-reset), re-load the
> tracks?
>
> I also assume that this happens with all different albums and tracks,
> and not those specific files?
>
> P.S. Please bottom-post.
>
>

I think, we've found the culprit:

After installing tinytag and changing info function to

(setq emms-info-functions '(emms-info-tinytag))

and clearing the cache I go the message that program python couldn't be found so  I linked symbolically /usr/bin/python to /usr/bin/python3 and then the tag information was loaded and eventually the timer started working as expected!

After clearing the cache and changing back to  (setq emms-info-functions '(emms-info-native))  again getting only file paths instead of tags and timer only progressing (01:34).

One and the same music album loaded with (emms-playlist-track-at (point)) gets filepaths and timer progressing while loaded after changing config to (setq emms-info-functions '(emms-info-tinytag)) gets tags and timer functioning properly.

On my laptop I installed exiftool from exiftool.org and managed to sort it out as well after adding (setq emms-info-functions '(emms-info-exiftool))

Thanks for Your help!

P.S.

I'm not so proficient in emacs yet (not a programmer) so explain me please how to evaluate (emms-playlist-track-at (point)) while cursor is on the track in the playlist buffer? After pasting this line to playlist buffer and C-x C-e it evaluates to nil. When pasted to scratch buffer I did the same thing and I got "not EMMS playlist buffer". In M-x functions it can't be found as well.

regards!