Re: [emms-help] Sample configuration for mpd+emms?

[Yoni Rabkin]

Julien Cubizolles <address@hidden> writes:

> Yoni Rabkin <address@hidden> writes:
>
>
>>> At the moment, I'm using a fork (https://github.com/jreinert/MPD) of
>>> mpd that addresses this very issue ensuring that no duplicated entries
>>> are created in the tag_cache. But it would of course be better for
>>> emms to handle this kind of error in the tag_cache.
>>
>> I'm sorry it has taken me so long to respond; the quotidian got the
>> better of me.
>
> Thanks a lot for taking the time to look into this.
>
>> Since I'm unfamiliar with mpd I'd like to understand: is this a bug in
>> mpd which will be fixed upstream?
>
> To me it's a bug but the developper doesn't see it that way and won't
> fix it. But I'm not the only one annoyed with it and someone patched
> this problem in MPD
>
>> Or is the point to make sure that Emms doesn't get confused when
>> reading from buggy software that provides multiple, identical entries?
>
> I wanted to let you know however that at the moment emms gets so
> confused that it ends up with a completely wrong database.
>
> Also, have you seen my other message where I noticed that some entries
> in a perfectly valid MPD database (without duplicates) seem to confuse
> emms so that its entries mix up their titles/track numbers, in the emms
> cache ? (http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.emms.user/1768/)

That doesn't sound good. I'll look into that.


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