Yoni Rabkin (2016-10-13 10:35 -0400) wrote: > Julien Cubizolles <j.cubizol...@free.fr> writes: > >> Yoni Rabkin <y...@rabkins.net> writes: >> >>>> querying stream...done >>>> now playing: N/A on N/A, genre: N/A, bitrate: N/A >>> >>> I just tried it and got: >>> >>> querying stream...done >>> now playing: Indie LoFi College on SomaFM presents: Indie Pop Rocks! >>> [SomaFM], genre: Indie LoFi College, bitrate: Indie LoFi College >>> >>>> I'm running emms-20160801.1349 from melpa. >>> >>> I'm not involved with melpa. I tried it with the latest Savannah git. >> >> I tried emms from Savannah git and still got the N/A results. Maybe I'm >> not using the right function in emms-info-functions: >> >>> emms-info functions: (emms-info-mpd emms-info-libtag). >> >> Which one do you haveĀ ? > > Getting info from a stream is a different thing than getting it from a > file, so the info functions don't apply. The streaming info backend is > determined by the variable `*emms-stream-info-backend*', which is set to > mplayer in my case. > > I also note that while setting `*emms-stream-info-backend*' is mentioned > in emms-stream-info.el, it isn't mentioned in the manual. I'll add it to > the manual so people can do that in future.
Could you please remove '*' from this variable name? Using * for global variables is not an emacs convention. Besides it's the only emms variable that does it, I think it would be better to name it just 'emms-stream-info-backend' for consistency. -- Alex _______________________________________________ Emms-help mailing list Emms-help@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emms-help