Re: [emms-help] emms won't seek

[William Xu]

Angelina Carlton <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi,
> I cannot get emms to seek during playback, I use mplayer as the backend
> but the same behaviour happend with mpd. Instead of seeking, emms simply
> starts playing the next song in the playlist.

Ah, seems we lack some proper documentation about seek. To make mplayer
know seek, you should use mplayer in -slave mode, i.e., 

(setq emms-player-mplayer-parameters 
      (append emms-player-mplayer-parameters '("-slave")))

I've sent a patch to make mplayer's slave mode enabled by default, so if
you grab a latest checkout, you don't have to set this.

> in my .emacs:
> (load-library "my-emms.el")
>
> in my-emms.el:
> ;; emms
> ;; http://www.gnu.org/software/emms/
> (require 'emms-setup)
> (emms-all)

> (require 'emms-player-simple)
> (require 'emms-source-file)
> (require 'emms-source-playlist)
> (require 'emms-streams)
> (require 'emms-playing-time)

This requires aren't necessary. (require 'emms-setup) is enough.

> (setq emms-player-list '(emms-player-mplayer
>                          emms-player-alsaplayer
>                          emms-player-mpg321
>                          emms-player-ogg123))
> (setq emms-source-file-default-directory "/mp3/")
> (setq emms-playlist-buffer-name "*Music!*")

> (emms-playing-time 1)

Also, could remove this, which is already enabled in `emms-all'.

-- 
William

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