Re: [emms-help] [STUMP] getting mpd working with emms and stumpwm

[Eric Abrahamsen]

On Sun, Jan 15 2012, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 13 2012, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm a heavy emacs user, recent Stumpwm convert, and just discovered mpd
>> for playing music. I'm trying to get EMMS and the mpd Stump plugin to
>> play nicely together, and having some difficulties. (I'm using
>> archlinux, sbcl 1.0.54, mpd 0.16.6, stump from git, emacs from git, and
>> EMMS 3.0.)
>>
>> My goal, which I've achieved intermittently, is to be able to control
>> browsing, playlists and playback from either EMMS or Stump, and have
>> them talk nicely to each other: changes made via one reflected
>> immediately in the other, etc.
>
> After messing with other mpd interfaces (mpc, gmpc), it seems clear that
> the problem lies in keeping EMMS current with mpd. Repeated calls to
> `emms-player-mpd-connect' can help catch EMMS up if I've changed the
> playlist via other interfaces, but I can't figure out how to sync in the
> opposite direction—making sure that playlist changes and current play
> state set in EMMS are communicated to mpd and its other interfaces.
>
> EMMS has got everything else beat in terms of browsing/searching and
> playlist manipulation, but I need something more general for playback
> control—can someone familiar with EMMS let me know if there's something
> I can do here? 'emms-player-mpd-sync-playlist' is set to true…

I set `emms-player-mpd-verbose' to t, and now receive the message
"Closed MusicPD process" every once in a while—sometimes immediately
after issuing some sort of play command, sometimes a few minutes later.
Is it supposed to do that? Can I stop it?

Thanks!

Eric