Re: Sound in Emacs

[chad]

On Oct 4, 2011, at 5:23 PM, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:

But it's like ImageMagick support.  Does displaying images inside Emacs
give you a better experience?  I think it does.  And I have a feeling
the same would be the case with sound support.

I suspect that it's the `browsing' versus `working with' difference; I

find image viewing in Emacs to be very useful for looking through

things that contain images, but I've never really missed the ability

to crop, rotate, zoom, etc -- although those would be neat, I haven't

really wanted them.

There is a big UX difference between using emacs to manage a music

collection, adding ui sounds to gnus, and using emacs to figure out

that sound/892794.ogg is `ding' while sound/234676.ogg is `quack'.  I

don't know that EMMS benefits much from internal players, or that a

software replacement for the dectalk is interesting.  I imagine that

many emacs hackers would hate sounds in gnus (look at how many disable

the bell), but I suspect many of the newer users would like it (I've

actually turned them back on in my non-Emacs email environment,

because I like to hear when mail has actually been sent). I imagine

most people either don't care or would like to have emacs' help

browsing sound files in dired.

I hope that this musing hasn't been entirely useless. :-)

*Chad