What is Emacs ?

Emacs is the extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor. This Editor is used to do a lot of things, from IRC to reading mails and news, along with "basic" editing, advanced macro, remote control, multimedia player, and so on..

This webpage is about EMMS, an Emacs "package" that you use to extend Emacs features to multimedia.

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.

News: EMMS 4.0 Released

Emms 4.0 was released July 27 2014. The release tarballs is available here.

4.0 highlights

Add GNU FM support
Added mp4, m4a to the extensions handled by emms-info-libtag
(optionally) play tracks randomly
Extend MPD player support
Add pause-resume support for lyrics display
New implementation of emms-print-metadata
Support both XEmacs and Emacs to highlight playing lyrics
Add support for disc-number sorting of FLAC files
New function to allow custom browser track-formats to display track duration
depreciate emms-player-gstreamer, Last.fm support
emms-player-mplayer: Remove code for loading movie subtitles automatically by emms, since mplayer has an option (`sub-fuzziness') controlling that
Support displaying lyrics in a dedicated buffer, to highlight playing lyric
Fix make install on Cygwin
Compilation errors cleanup

News: EMMS 3.0 Released Under the GPLv3

On 2007-06-29, the EMMS team proudly released EMMS 3.0. The tarball is available here. EMMS 3.0 includes a lot of new features, and is released under the brand new GPLv3. Big thanks to the FSF to make that license available!

Note that the development version is usually quite stable, too. See here for further instructions.

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 no least : Written in Emacs lisp :)

Reporting bugs

You can just report bugs at emms-help {at} gnu {dot} org (subscription required, see here). A patch along with the bug-report will probably make any bug-report very welcome.
You could also check out the current $HOME of EMMS, on the EmacsWiki: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/EMMS.
You're very welcome to add bugreports, feature-requests and even patches or comments there.

Copyright

EMMS is proudly part of the GNU Project. The first alpha was made by Jorgen Schäfer (forcer {at} forcix {dot} cx) and Ulrik Jensen (terryp {at} daimi {dot} au {dot} dk), building upon the work of the mp3player-team, and others.

Have fun, and enjoy EMMS!