[emms-help] Re: emms mode line format question

[Lucas Bonnet]

Leon <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi all,

Hello.

> Is it possible to set the mode line format to display the song name?
> For example, if emms is playing "/music/happybirthday.mp3", display
> "happybirthday" or even better display the id3 title, instead of
> "/music/happybirthday.mp3".

Sure. First, to enable id3 reading you need either mp3info or the tag
reader provided with EMMS.

Tag-reading is enabled with (emms-standard) or better. The song title in
the mode-line is enabled with (emms-all).

In the end, all you need to do is to (emms-all) in your EMMS config and
install mp3info and ogginfo. If you want to use the libtag method there
are instructions for this in the README and the manual.

Hope this helps,
-- 
Lucas