Re: [emms-help] Album artist grouping in emms-browser

2018-04-22 Thread Petteri Hintsanen
Pierre Neidhardt writes: > Changing this design would imply a lot of refactoring... For little > benefit I believe. I believe your analysis is correct. It would be stupid to break an otherwise simple design (which is intrinsically good) and working implementation. Thanks,

Re: [emms-help] mpv player alternative with json-ipc

2018-04-22 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Thanks for all the tips, that's very helpful. After further testing, I don't think this has anything to do with Emms. I use GuixSD and I experience strange behaviour when I re-log to my session: pulseaudio is started multiple times. -- Pierre Neidhardt As President I have to go vacuum my coin

Re: [emms-help] mpv player alternative with json-ipc

2018-04-22 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Sun, 22 Apr 2018 14:44:30 +0530 Pierre Neidhardt wrote: > I've noticed another issue: with mpv constantly running, it keeps > pulseaudio always up and seems to prevent power management on the audio > card. > > I'm not sure about the details but a consequence of switching

Re: [emms-help] mpv player alternative with json-ipc

2018-04-22 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
I've noticed another issue: with mpv constantly running, it keeps pulseaudio always up and seems to prevent power management on the audio card. I'm not sure about the details but a consequence of switching to Mike's implementation of the mpv backed has resulted in a 25% drop in battery life.

Re: [emms-help] Album artist grouping in emms-browser

2018-04-22 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Petteri Hintsanen writes: > Pierre Neidhardt writes: > >> Petteri Hintsanen writes: >> >>> Caching in general is not particularly smart at the moment. Also the >>> metadata extraction could be orders of magnitude faster by batching; now