Re: How do I get the track info?

[Yoni Rabkin]

Edgar Lux <edgarlux@mailfence.com> writes:

> Hello!
>
> Thank you. I did try, but
>
> On 2020-08-31 13:43, Yoni Rabkin wrote:
>
> #+begin_quote
>   git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/emms.git
>   cd emms
>   make emms-print-metadata
>   sudo cp src/emms-print-metadata /usr/local/bin/
>   cd ..
>   rm -R emms
> #+end_quote
>
>
> did not work (still getting the full path of the file name in the
> mode-line). (What comes next is my honest attempt to show that I
> tried).

When you run emms-print-metadata on a file, does it provide some output?

For instance, on my machine:

$ emms-print-metadata /home/yrk/audio/jazz/Kamasi\ 
Washington/01_kamasi_washington_truth.mp3
info-album=Truth
info-albumartist=Kamasi Washington
info-artist=Kamasi Washington
info-title=Truth
info-tracknumber=1
info-discnumber=1
info-playing-time=810

Of course taglib needs to be installed for that to work.

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