Re: Associating artwork with native playlists?

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Yoni Rabkin <yoni@rabkins.net> writes:

> I see no reason not to display network streams in the browser, and to
> associate images with them to boot.
>
> The artwork would have to be mostly user-supplied, and we need to come
> up with a way of pairing an image with a specific stream.
>
> Perhaps each stream can generate a short hash which we can turn into a
> filename ("DK2RSK3DEU.png"). Then the browser could check for the
> existence of "~/.emacs.d/emms/stream_images/DK2RSK3DEU.png" and cache
> that.
>
> If we can get people like Soma.FM to give us copies of their per-stream
> artwork under a freedom-respecting license, then we could ask the FSF
> (as copyright holder of Emms) for permission to ship that artwork along
> with Emms (without Soma.FM assigning copyright). Otherwise, we would
> provide instructions for the user to do so independently.
>
This sounds excellent!

> A native Emms playlist has two parts: a header string as defined by
> `emms-source-playlist-native-header-line', followed by writing out the
> sexp representation of the tracks.
>
> So if you where to look at how a track is represented by invoking
> (emms-playlist-track-at (point)) over a playlist track, you'll find that
> same sexp written out if you save the playlist in native format to a
> file.

Thank you very much for the explanation, and for your reply.

Edgar Vincent


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