Re: [emms-help] info-year and info-date

[Yoni Rabkin]

Pierre Neidhardt <address@hidden> writes:

> Almost all my tracks use 'info-date and not info-year.
>
> Because of
>
>       (defun emms-browser-format-line (bdata &optional target)
>   ;; ...
>                (format-choices
>                 `(("i" . ,indent)
>                   ("n" . ,name)
>                   ("y" . ,(emms-track-get track 'info-year))
>
> the album date (or year) does not get displayed in the browser.
>
> The following fixes it:
>
>             ("y" . ,(emms-track-get track 'info-date))
>
> Of course this is not a viable solution as the users who need the
> 'info-year field lose the year display.
>
> Is there any generic way to always derive the track year from both
> 'info-date and 'info-year?

Unfortunately, there is no easy way to do this.

> Do we actually need both fields?  Looks like only info-date would be useful.

I agree, but as I've mentioned elsewhere, I don't use the browser so my
opinion isn't worth as much here.

Rasmus? Do you have input on this issue?


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