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EMMS is the Emacs multimedia system. It plays multimedia files using external players.

EMMS is the Emacs multimedia system. As described on its web site:

EMMS is the Emacs Multimedia System. It tries to be a clean and small application to play multimedia files from Emacs using external players. Many of it's ideas are derived from MpthreePlayer , but it tries to be more general and cleaner.

The fact that EMMS is based on external players makes it powerful, because it supports all formats that those players support, with no effort from your side.

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What are the options to play music from within Emacs?

I have a bunch of music (.mp3) files on my disk, and I would like to play them from within Emacs. I tried EMMS, but it seems rather bloated. I'm curious about other possibilities, with comparison of features. In particular, I am interested in…
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EMMS doesn't seem to see anything from MPD

I've set up MPD, and it's definitely running and indexing everything correctly. I followed the instructions here to set up EMMS to work with MPD, and after running M-x emms-cache-set-from-mpd-all, it indexed the right number of tracks, and…
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How to shuffle albums in EMMS?

In the Emacs Multi-Media System, shuffling by song is as easy as M-xemms-shuffle, but i cant figure out how to shuffle by album, or to add a random album to the playlist. Is this possible?
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How do you actually use EMMS?

Could someone explain in a very general sense how EMMS is intended to be used? I am a refugee from the world of GUI music players and perhaps my mind has been warped by that. But I haven't been able to understand from the official documentation…
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Is there a way for EMMS to create playlists based on an existing directory structure?

I (finally!) have a working EMMS to play my music collection, and would like to sort it into playlists. At the moment, my music directory (~/Music/) is already organized into folders (at the first level) which I would like to form the new playlists.…
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Why can't EMMS play flac files using the mplayer backend?

I'm trying to use EMMS with mplayer as its backend. So far, everything works fine, but for some reason, EMMS refuses point-blank to play anything with a .flac extension in my playlist. I've checked the regex EMMS uses for mplayer, and .flac is a…
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Emms play at certain time

I wish to play certain music files, but from certain time. I find the seek forward/backward functions not the ones I need since they require me to fast forward/backward until I arrive at certain time. What's the correct way of navigating through the…
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Can EMMS prevent my laptop from going to sleep?

Q: how do I keep EMMS from allowing my laptop to go to sleep? I use EMMS to play music files. When I've got a long playlist going, I expect it to keep my laptop awake and continue working through the playlist, even when I'm not otherwise…
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EMMS doesn't show the track length

EMMS shows only the playing time, not the track length, e.g.: 02:37 not 02:37/05:49. The variable emms-playing-time-display-short-p has the correct value: nil. My default player is mplayer, but I've tried also vlc. I never get the track…
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EMMS is not displaying tag info with libtag

EMMS seems to be completely unaware of any tag / metadata in my music files. I tried configuring it with mp3info (I no longer want this anyway), and now with libtag, checking that they work in command line, and I have deleted and recreated the…
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Emms: How can I have a progress bar?

How can I have a progress bar so I can drag to specific point of a song in emms? With a progress bar, it gives a more straight sense on how much the music has been played.
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EMMS read .ogg tags?

Q: how can I get EMMS to read .ogg file tags? After a fresh system install, EMMS does not read .ogg tags. I've looked at the source code for emms-info-ogginfo, and it uses the variable emms-info-ogginfo-program-name, which is set to ogginfo, which…
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EMMS and MPD configuration

I've setup EMMS to use with MPD according to the manual with : (use-package emms :config (require 'emms-setup) (require 'emms-player-mpd) (emms-all) ; don't change this to values you see on stackoverflow questions if you expect emms to…
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Unable to let emms understand metadata

I don't understand why all my music artist/genre/album etc. are classified under misc/unknown given the fact that I'm confident that 90% of 200G music do have metadata. I managed to get the source of emms-print-metadata and installed it, tested it…
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How to define a function that calls two commands where the first one requires an arguments

I use emms to play music in emacs and I have this function to add a music directory and shuffle it. (defun my-emms-command() "Run `emms-add-directory' and `emms-shuffle' in sequence." (interactive) …
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