Re: [emms-help] M-x streams revisited

[Yoni Rabkin]

Fran Burstall <address@hidden> writes:

> I think this is a good idea.
>
> However, perhaps it would be helpful to document in the manual how to
> roll your own streams.emms type playlist as this is not obvious (at
> least to me!).

It is already built into Emms as part of saving and loading any
playlist. You would:

    * M-x emms-add-streamlist [URL]

... until you have a playlist of all of the urls you want, then:

    * M-x emms-playlist-save

... and choose whichever format you want to save the playlist in.

>
>
> On Mon, 12 Aug 2019 at 00:55, Yoni Rabkin <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>    
>     The streams mode in Emms is a kludge. I've previously commented
>     on a
>     proposed course of action, but after trying my new streams mode
>     privately decided that it is no good either.
>    
>     I've given it some thought and decided on a new course of action.
>     I'm
>     going to throw this idea out for comment for one month before
>     implementing it:
>    
>         * The entire emms-streams.el file and the associated mode
>     will be
>           removed completely from Emms.
>    
>         * A trimmed down, native-format playlist file called
>     streams.emms
>           will be included in the `lisp' directory (it is technically
>     a Lisp
>           file.)
>    
>         * The Emms manual will advise that Emms comes with a small
>     selection
>           of online streaming stations which can be loaded with `M-x
>           emms-add-playlist .../lisp/streams.emms'.
>    
>         * The command `M-x emms-streams' will display a message to
>     the
>           effect that the feature has been removed, and point to the
>           relevant text in the manual. This will persist for the
>     duration of
>           a single point release (that is, six months.) Then the M-x
>           emms-streams command will be removed.
>    
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