Media player

EMMS

EMMS, The Emacs Multimedia System.

EMMS is the Emacs Multimedia System. It tries to be a clean and small application to play multimedia files from Emacs using external players. Many of it's ideas are derived from MpthreePlayer , but it tries to be more general and cleaner.

The fact that EMMS is based on external players makes it powerful, because it supports all formats that those players support, with no effort from your side.

Features

• Free Software (as in Free Speech, and Free Beer)
• Extensible
• Very light (some might even say stealth)
• Audio support : MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC
• Video support : MPEG, WMV, MOV, AVI, OGM, MKV, etc...
• Tagging capability, possibly batched
• Playlist management
• Remotely drivable via emacsclient (playlist creation via rox-filer, for example)
• And last but not least : Written in Emacs lisp :)

Installation

Install the needed packages with the package manager of your system :

sudo apt-get install emms vorbis-tools

(you may also try with el-get.)

add the following to your ~/.emacs :

(require 'emms-setup)
          (emms-all)
          (emms-default-players)

and, as usual, restart emacs or M-x eval-current-buffer RET.

Usage

You can play a file or a directory with the command M-x emms-play-file or emms-play-directory.

You can add files and directories to the emms playlist (which will be created if it doesn't exist yet) with M-x emms-add-file, play it with emms-start and you can visit the playlist buffer by simply calling M-x emms RET. Hitting '?' in the playlist buffer will show you all the available shortcuts.

Add other file extensions

If you want to, say, be able to read flv videos :

;; add flv and ogv
(define-emms-simple-player mplayer '(file url)
      (regexp-opt '(".ogg" ".mp3" ".wav" ".mpg" ".mpeg" ".wmv" ".wma"
                    ".mov" ".avi" ".divx" ".ogm" ".asf" ".mkv" "http://" "mms://"
                    ".rm" ".rmvb" ".mp4" ".flac" ".vob" ".m4a" ".flv" ".ogv" ".pls"))
      "mplayer" "-slave" "-quiet" "-really-quiet" "-fullscreen")

Extensions

Get lyrics of current song

We have to install emms-get-lyrics.el.

With el-get : el-get-install RET emms-get-lyrics RET.

Or :

• save https://raw.github.com/talau/elisp/master/emms-get-lyrics.el in your ~/.emacs.d/my-extensions
• be sure you have emacs-w3m installed
• add those two lines in your ~/.emacs :

(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/my-extensions/")
(require 'emms-get-lyrics)

• M-x evaluate-current-buffer

Then start playing a song and call M-x emms-get-lyrics-current-song.

Excerpt from its documentation :

The function 'emms-get-lyrics-current-song' tries to get the lyrics of the song that emms is currently playing [from http://www.lyricwiki.org/]. It currently requires w3m to get the lyrics. It copies the lyrics to a file ending in .lyrics; if the variable `emms-get-lyrics-use-files' is nil, it will just display the lyrics in a buffer without saving them to a file. If the variable `emms-get-lyrics-dir' is non-nil, then the lyrics will be put in this directory with the file ARTIST-TITLE.lyrics; otherwise it will be put in the same directory as the song file, in a file with the same name as the song file except the extension will by ".lyrics".

External links

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EMMS

http://www.gnewsense.org/Documentation/Emacs#Listening_to_Music an easy tutorial to begin with.

Mpg123

mpg123 is a package written by HiroseYuuji for playing .mp3 and .ogg files with the mpg123 and ogg123 programs.

Installation

Debian system

Install the mpg123-el package :

apt-get install mpg123-el

All systems

Install the mpg123 and ogg123 programs with your system's package manager :

apt-get install mpg123 ogg123

Grab the sources from mpg123.el's git repository and save them in ~/.emacs.d/mpg123.el.

Check you have the following in your .emacs :

(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/")

restart emacs or M-x eval-current-buffer.

Usage

M-x mpg123

start mpg123, choose a directory or a mp3/ogg file and start listening. The buffer shows a complete list of commands.

External links

http://www.gentei.org/~yuuji/software/mpg123el/mpg123-remote.el stuff to control mpg123.el from the outside.

sources : http://www.gentei.org/~yuuji/software/mpg123el/