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GNU Emacs control of Music Player Daemon (MPD)
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GNU Emacs control of Music Player Daemon (MPD)

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Mingus is a frontend for GNU Emacs to the Music Player daemon. The

interface closely, though not strictly, resembles that of ncmpc, which

I had been using before (the main drawback of ncmpc for me was it’s

apparent lack of support for unicode). It has some advantages over

other clients, mainly in the field of playlist editing. This is

achieved through marking and regions as you are used too in emacs and

in dired. Mingus also provides a point-of-insertion for inserting new

songs. This can be handy to drop a song after the currently playing

one (enqueue), but is more flexible. Mingus is distributed under the

GPL.



w3m

===

Another plus is its integration with emacs-w3m , in the sense that,

when bumping into a sexy podcast or radio-stream while browsing in

the browser of browsers, you have the ability to add any stream at

point (and play it directly, if so desired).



Dired

=====

Jump from Mingus to song at point in Dired, and, vice versa, add songs

from Dired to the playlist.



Autocompletion on queries

=========================

Mingus has kind of autocompletion on queries. The browser can show

either the song results or their parent directories. This lets you go

easy on the tagging, and make good use of a simple file-system

structured song collection. Mingus can be configured to use ido-mode

completion.



Bookmarking

===========

Mingus with version >= 0.32 (Fleurette Africaine) has bookmarks to

remember filename and position. This can be very useful with

audiobooks or working with language courses.



Global bookmarking shortcuts C-x r b and C-x r m are overwritten in

Mingus' global map to have alike functionality, and C-x r d is set to

mingus-bookmark-delete. The function mingus-bookmark-set (C-x r b)

takes currently playing file + its current elapsed time. Buffer

position is ignored. Mingus-bookmark-jump will jump to a bookmark. It

inserts the file into the current playlist when it is not yet there.



Mingus stays home

=================

If mingus stays home, i.e. the daemon mpd is run from the same

computer as the client, mingus-stays-home.el provides an experimental

cd-burning tool (mingus-burns). When you have

[taggit.el](https://github.com/pft/elisp-assorted/blob/master/taggit.el)

and the command-line [taggit program](https://github.com/ft/taggit)

mingus can call that with a selection of songs to perform (batch) tag

editing.



Prerequisites

=============

libmpdee.el by R. Ramkumar. Currently mingus runs on GNU Emacs22 and

GNU Emacs 23. If you also want to use mingus-stays-home.el, cdrecord (or

any other command-line cd-burning tool taking files as arguments) might

be needed.



ToDo

====

mingus.el

---------

- Add text-properties (fringe-bitmap?) for point-of-insertion

- Add a search buffer In this search buffer, you would be able to

   filter songs by their attributes. It would have a tabular layout,

   and you could safe-sort the songs. Maybe as-you-type, maybe not.