The Emms Manual

Emms Manual

This is the Manual for the Emacs Multimedia System.

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Starting out

• Introduction: Introduction to Emms.
• Installation: How to install Emms on your System.
• Simple Setup: Quick, basic default Emms setup.
• Configuration: More detailed setup and configuration.
• Quickstart Guide: First steps with EMMS for new users.
• Getting Help: Where to get help with Emms and make suggestions.
• Formats and Freedom: File formats without restrictions.

Emms basics

• Basic Commands: How to control Emms with ease.
• The Core File: The inner core of Emms.
• Sources: Sources for playlists-creation.
• Simple Players: Some simple players.
• Playlists: How Emms organizes media.

Advanced Features

• Track Information: More narrative track descriptions.
• Interactive Playlists: Interactive Playlists.
• Markable Playlists: Allow tracks to be marked.

Modules and Extensions

• The Browser: Advanced metadata browsing.
• Sorting Playlists: Sorting the order of the tracks.
• Persistent Playlists: Restoring playlists on emacs startup.
• Editing Tracks: Editing track information from within Emms.
• Emms Mode Line: Emms information on the mode line.
• Music Player Daemon: Interface to Music Player Daemon.
• Streaming Audio: Interface to streaming audio.
• Lyrics: Displaying lyrics synchronously.
• Volume: Changing the volume.
• APE / FLAC Commands: How to play next or previous track in these files.
• Bookmarks: Saving a place in a media file.
• GNU FM: Connect to music community websites.
• Extending Emms: How to define new players and modules.

Copying and license

• Copying: The GNU General Public License gives you permission to redistribute Emms on certain terms; it also explains that there is no warranty.
• The GNU FDL: The license for this documentation.

Indices

• Concept Index
• Function Index
• Variable Index
• Keybinding Index

--- The Detailed Node Listing ---

Here are some other nodes which are really inferiors of the ones already listed, mentioned here so you can get to them in one step:

Installation

• Compiling Emms: Compiling Emms into Byte-Code.

The Core File

• User Variables: Variables for the user to tweak.
• Hooks: Hooks for important Emms functions.
• Core Functions: Providing the basic functionality of Emms.

Track Information

• Using TagLib: TagLib for track information.
• Defining Info Methods: Defining new info methods.

Extending Emms

• New Player: How to define a new player.
• Simple Player for `play': Example player using play.
• More Complex Player: Example of a complex player using mpg321.