Re: Emmms dbus or mpris integration

[Yoni Rabkin]

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

> OK.  Might take a day or two...

That's fine.

You should also add "(require 'url-parse)" so that gnu elpa auto-compile
won't complain about `url-type' and `url-filename' being missing.


> On Wed, 4 Jan 2023 at 17:10, Yoni Rabkin <yoni@rabkins.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> Excellent, I'll do that.
>>
>> Can you please provide the text needed for the manual for this feature?
>> You can patch the manual in the mpris branch, but you can also just send
>> the text here and I'll add it to the manual.
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>>
>> "Fran Burstall (Gmail)" <fran.burstall@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > Well I have been using it every day for months so by all means merge it
>> > into main as far as I am concerned!
>> >
>> > ---Fran
>> >
>> > On Wed, 4 Jan 2023 at 16:58, Yoni Rabkin <yoni@rabkins.net> wrote:
>> >
>> >>
>> >> 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
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >>    "Cut your own wood and it will warm you twice"
>> >>
>>
>> --
>>    "Cut your own wood and it will warm you twice"
>>

-- 
   "Cut your own wood and it will warm you twice"