[emms-help] emms-player-mpd: current song not highlighted, playlist not consumed

[Alexis]

Hi all,

i use mpd in 'consume mode' - i add songs to my playlist, which then get
deleted from the playlist once they've been played.

emms-player-mpd does not seem to work with consume mode. A track entry
in the EMMS playlist is not removed once that track has been played; nor
does the highlighting change so that the currently-playing track is
highlighted. Instead, the first track in the playlist remains
highlighted, although `emms-player-mpd-show` correctly displays the
currently-playing track.

Refreshing the playlist by pressing 'g' (`emms-player-mpd-connect`)
shows the played tracks deleted from the playlist, and the
currently-playing track at the top of the playlist, highlighted.

i could, of course, add some advice, or redefine a function, such
that `emms-player-mpd-connect` gets called upon track change; but this
brute-force approach seems to be papering over either a bug or a lack of
knowledge on my part about how to configure things correctly.

Any ideas?

Thanks in anticipation,


Alexis.

[Yoni Rabkin]

Post by Alexis
Hi all,
i use mpd in 'consume mode' - i add songs to my playlist, which then get
deleted from the playlist once they've been played.
emms-player-mpd does not seem to work with consume mode. A track entry
in the EMMS playlist is not removed once that track has been played; nor
does the highlighting change so that the currently-playing track is
highlighted. Instead, the first track in the playlist remains
highlighted, although `emms-player-mpd-show` correctly displays the
currently-playing track.
Refreshing the playlist by pressing 'g' (`emms-player-mpd-connect`)
shows the played tracks deleted from the playlist, and the
currently-playing track at the top of the playlist, highlighted.
i could, of course, add some advice, or redefine a function, such
that `emms-player-mpd-connect` gets called upon track change; but this
brute-force approach seems to be papering over either a bug or a lack of
knowledge on my part about how to configure things correctly.
Any ideas?

I don't think that you are missing anything. I think that
emms-player-mpd.el just doesn't know about consume. You can send in a
patch to fix this (... using something less dramatic than calling
-connect each track) or you can wait for me to have a go. I personally
don't use mpd at all, but I keep an mpd server running in the house to
debug Emms stuff, so I should be able to figure it out eventually.

If you are going to take this on, please ping the mailing list so that I
know if I should be adding this to my TODO.

thanks

[Alexis]

Post by Yoni Rabkin
I don't think that you are missing anything. I think that
emms-player-mpd.el just doesn't know about consume.

Ah okay, fair enough!

Unfortunately i won't be able to contribute a patch, due to the
copyright assignment issue. (i imagine such a patch will probably be
larger than a TINYCHANGE.) So i'll have to wait until you (or someone
else) has the time and/or energy to address this. :-)

Thanks!


Alexis.