20.1 Browser Interface
The browser interface allows you to display and interact with your
tracks in many different ways. There are a number of ways to start the
browser.
— Function:
emms-smart-browse
Display browser and playlist. Toggle between selecting browser,
playlist or hiding both. Tries to behave sanely if the user has
manually changed the window configuration.
— Function:
emms-browse-by-artist
Display the browser and order the tracks by artist.
— Function:
emms-browse-by-album
Display the browser and order the tracks by album.
— Function:
emms-browse-by-genre
Display the browser and order the tracks by genre.
— Function:
emms-browse-by-year
Display the browser and order the tracks by year.
Once the Browser is displayed you can use it to managed your track
collection and playlists. The Browser is interactive and has its own
keybindings.
- C-j
- Add all tracks at point, and play the first added track.
- RET
- Add all tracks at point.
- SPC
- Show or hide (kill) subitems under the current line.
- 1
- Collapse everything.
- 2
- Expand all top level items one level.
- 3
- Expand all top level items two levels.
- 4
- Expand all top level items three levels.
- C
- Clear the playlist.
- E
- Expand everything.
- d
- View the current directory in dired.
- q
- Bury the browser buffer.
- r
- Jump to a random track.
- /
- Isearch through the buffer.
- <
- Redisplay with the previous filter.
- >
- Redisplay with the next filter.
- ?
- See the Emacs documentation for the function.
- C-/
- Undo the previous playlist action.
- <C-return>
- Add all tracks at point, and play the first added track.
- <backtab>
- Jump to the previous non-track element.
- <tab>
- Jump to the next non-track element.
- s A
- Search the collection by album.
- s a
- Search the collection by artist.
- s s
- Search the collection by names.
- s t
- Search the collection by title.
- b 1
- Browse the collection by artist.
- b 2
- Browse the collection by album.
- b 3
- Browse the collection by genre.
- b 4
- Browse the collection by year.
- W a p
- Lookup the album using Pitchfork.
- W a w
- Lookup the album using Wikipedia.