Yuchen Pei <[email protected]> writes: > Mike Kazantsev <[email protected]> writes: > >> On Mon, 27 Sep 2021 10:08:26 -0400 >> Greg Farough <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Sep 27 2021, Yuchen Pei <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > Hello, >>> > >>> > I'd like to "get or create" the feature to play over ssh, > >>> which could >>> > be something like >>> > (emms-add-ssh ssh://user@host/path/to/media/file), where the > >>> same >>> > scheme is used by git when for ssh remote. >>> This would be a neat feature. In lieu of one like it, I'm just >>> dropping into say that I use sshfs and dired for this, and it works >>> well. >> >> Yeah, same here, sftp (sshfs) is a great filesystem protocol, >> been using it instead of nfs/smb/cifs for more than a decade now, >> and would highly recommend to check it out instead. > > Actually the sftp scheme does work OOTB with emms: > > (emms-add-url "sftp://user@host/path/to/media_file";) > > turns out the emms-add-url is more universal than I thought and I can > use it to add paths with a whole lot of different schemes (even > file:// for local files), so I don't really need any other > emms-add-foo at all!
Feel free to add a sentence or two in the manual to that effect. -- "Cut your own wood and it will warm you twice"
