Re: Emmms dbus or mpris integration

[Yoni Rabkin]

The mpris branch has been there for a while, and I assume that you all
have been using it.

Can I merge it into main so that the public at large can have a go at
it?


"Fran Burstall (Gmail)" <fran.burstall@gmail.com> writes:

> On Mon, 31 Oct 2022 at 13:36, Yoni Rabkin <yoni@rabkins.net> wrote:
>
>> "Fran Burstall (Gmail)" <fran.burstall@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > On Mon, 31 Oct 2022 at 12:05, Yoni Rabkin <yoni@rabkins.net> wrote:
>> >
>> >>
>> >> Björn Bidar via <emms-help@gnu.org> writes:
>> >>
>> >> > The emms manual mentions emms-dbus, where can I find that?
>> >>
>> >> That is just a reference to some code from someone's Emms config, and
>> >> not any official package.
>> >>
>> >> > It would be really useful to have some kind of mpris integration
>> >> > in emms.
>> >>
>> >> Shouldn't be too hard to implement in an Emacs with dbus.
>> >>
>> >
>> > In fact, I have an implementation of mpris for emms that I was thinking
>> > about contributing to emms.
>> >
>> > I hesitated because:
>> >
>> > 1. I thought it was an itch that only I wanted to scratch
>> > 2. It is not a complete implementation of the mpris2 spec.  You can use
>> it
>> > to play/pause/stop/next/previous/seek over mpris but not (for various
>> > reasons) change things like LoopStatus/Shuffle/Volume.
>> >
>> > If you want it despite these limitations, let me know and I will push it
>> to
>> > the git repo.
>>
>> Please do, that would be great.
>>
>> Björn, would you be willing to test Fran's implementation once it is in
>> the repo?
>>
>> --
>>    "Cut your own wood and it will warm you twice"
>>
>
> I have pushed emms-mpris.el to a new branch called mpris in the repo.
>
>>From the commentary:
>
> ;;; Commentary:
> ;; This package provides a dbus interface to EMMS.
>
> ;; Usage:
> ;;  (require 'emms-mpris)
> ;;  (emms-mpris-enable)
>
> ;; Switch off with
> ;;  (emms-mpris-disable)
>
> ;; Caveats: this is not quite a complete implementation of the
> ;; org.mpris.MediaPlayer2 and org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player interfaces
> ;; (see
> ;; https://specifications.freedesktop.org/mpris-spec/latest/index.html).
> ;; What is missing:
> ;;  - Volume: this should be easy but there seems to be no way to get a
> ;; simple percentage to report the volume---every emms-volume
> ;; controller returns a string in a different format, sigh.
> ;; - Shuffle
> ;; - LoopStatus
> ;; The issue with the last two is how to allow them to be set both
> ;; over dbus and via lisp/emms-ui.  I do not know how to do this in a
> ;; simple way.
>
> I am very open to help in improving this!
>
> ---Fran

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