Re: Emmms dbus or mpris integration

[Fran Burstall (Gmail)]

OK.  Might take a day or two...

---Fran

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"