"Fran Burstall (Gmail)" <fran.burst...@gmail.com> writes: > I started to play with the https://www.radio-browser.info API and built a > radio station browser for EMMS which I attach. > > There are three entry points > > emms-radio-browser-search-by-name > emms-radio-browser-search-by-url > emms-radio-browser-full-search > > All search the radio-browser database and return a playlist of results. > The last of these needs the (built-in since v28.1) transient package. > > It has only been lightly tested. > > If you think this is a worthwhile addition to EMMS, I can add it to the git > repo and write some documentation... > > ---Fran
I think that sounds good; thank you for working on this. Can you please open a branch with this code in it so that we can test and try it out easily? > On Thu, 26 Dec 2024 at 17:11, Fran Burstall (Gmail) <fran.burst...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I have been playing with emms-streams and with >> >> (setopt emms-player-mpv-update-metadata t) >> >> it is very capable. >> >> One mild pain point however is that adding a new stream with >> 'emms-add-streamlist' and friends gives a streamlist with less information >> than the built-in streamlists: it lacks the metadata field which is useful >> for getting the station name (which can then be fed to a track-description >> function to make for a more informative display in the playlist buffer). >> >> Of course, one can populate such a field by hand and this is what I have >> been doing but There Must Be A Better Way. This is the sort of thing that >> the unimplemented emms-streams-info.el could be doing but I understand that >> querying the url for such information is a bit of a nightmare (does the >> stream have ICY tags etc). There have been previous discussions on this >> list about this. >> >> However, there seems to be an alternative: https://www.radio-browser.info >> is a free (as in freedom, as far as I can tell) repository of station >> information with an API. Perhaps one could query this to get metadata >> about the stream? >> >> One could also imagine other uses of this data like a radio station >> browser in EMMS or being able to add streams by name rather than url... >> >> Thoughts? Worth pursuing? >> >> ---Fran >> >> >> > -- "Cut your own wood and it will warm you twice"
