Re: [emms-help] a workaround for pause, seek, etc.

[William Xu]

On 7/15/05, Jorgen Schaefer <address@hidden> wrote:
> William Xu <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > I'd love emms someday would support pause, seek, repeat, etc, especially
> > pause, which I think is quite useful. Currently i found mplayer has a
> > '-slave' mode, with which to implement pause becomes quite easy. Hope
> > it'll be useful for some.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Emms contains code to be able to plug in code as you have written.
> 
> Defining a new simple command player is easy:
> 
> (define-emms-simple-player pausing-mplayer '(file url)
>   (regexp-opt '(".ogg" ".mp3" ".wav" ".mpg" ".mpeg" ".wmv" ".wma"
>                 ".mov" ".avi" ".divx" ".ogm" ".asf" ".mkv" "http://";))
>   "mplayer" "-slave")
> 
> You can then add functionality to that player:
> 
> (emms-player-set emms-player-pausing-mplayer
>                  'pause
>                  'emms-player-pausing-mplayer-pause)
>                  ; ^ I want a prize for that function name!
> 
> Which can be used easily:
> 
> (defun emms-pause ()
>   "Pause the current player."
>   (when emms-player-playing-p
>     (funcall (emms-player-get emms-player-playing-p 'pause))))
> 
> etc.
> 
> The rest of the player then has to be made aware of the "paused"
> state, but emms does not care otherwise. :-)

Change as suggested(see attachment). Hmm, the design of emms is
nice and clean. btw, not only can it pause, but seek too.  :-) 

> > And, do you plan to add more user-level control functions? like repeat
> > current track, repeat all tracks ? These implementations would be quite
> > straightforward. I've written some myself.
> 
> I haven't found the "repeat this track" one too useful. If you
> have working code, please submit it, we will add it to CVS
> (probably in a new file). :-)

Sometimes i love one song so much that i'd love to listen again and
again. :-)  Codes are in the attachment.

-----
William

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