Re: emms in Emacs?

[Joakim Verona]

address@hidden (Karl Berry) writes:

> The authors of emms (Emacs Multi-Media System) have offered their
> package to GNU.  As with rcirc, rms and I would like to solicit any
> opinions from this group on the package, especially from people who have
> actually used it.  Here's the link:
> http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs/EMMS

I use emms. Its a nice package.

Its very configurable, and handles many different players, and handles
different scenarios.

The drawbacks Ive experienced with EMMS has more to do with emacs
suitability as a frontend to real-time oriented processes in general.

> It is apparently a replacement for the mp3player package
> (http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs/MpthreePlayer).  Other
> alternatives, such as mpg321.el and mpg123.el target specific players;
> emms tries to be more general.
>
> Thanks,
> Karl

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