Re: [emms-help] [bug?] libre.fm scrobbing when offline

[Rasmus]

Yoni Rabkin <address@hidden> writes:

>> I was working at a cafe today.  EMMS doesn't behave nicely when there's no
>> internet.  In particular I got the message
>>
>>     open-network-stream: turtle.libre.fm/80 Name or service not known
>>
>> and I had to call emms-smart-browse twice to open the browser.
>
> To be fair, the issue is emms-librefm and not Emms in general. I use
> Emms with the playlist mode and don't scrob (is that a word), so I
> haven't seen this issue come up.

The error is conditional on using the libre.fm part, I guess.

>> At the very least EMMS should catch the error and write out a message or
>> something, but otherwise ignore the error.
>
> That's a good starting point.
>
>> Even better would be start the EMMS scrobber in offline-mode, where
>> played songs and times are stored and uploaded on next connection.
>
> That would entail figuring out if there is a connection or not.

I don't know much about networking.  You could catch the error, or if you
want it more explicitly do something like.  

(condition-case nil
        (url-retrieve-synchronously "http://www.gnu.org";)
        (error nil))

(condition-case nil
        (url-retrieve-synchronously 
"www.nonexisting.domain.somewhere.out.there123")
        (error nil))

You'd probably need to clean up the buffer as well.

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Handling-Errors.html

Cheers,
Rasmus

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