Tracker/sequencer file formats in emms-player-mpv filename regex

[Mike Kazantsev]

Hi,

Mostly I've only been using emms to play very common mp3/ogg files,
or occasionally internet-radio streams, but recently downloaded a pack
of keygen music files in tracker/sequencer midi-ish formats, and of
course it (and its ffmpeg base) handles those just fine as well.

I've added those to 'regex in emms-player-mpv in my config like this:

  (emms-player-set emms-player-mpv 'regex
    (apply #'emms-player-simple-regexp (append emms-player-base-format-list
      '("xm" "mod" "it" "mid" "v2m" "ym" "s3m" "sid" "ahx" "fc13" "fc14"
        "sap" "rad" "hsc" "sc68" "d00" "amd" "bp" "spc" "nsf" "mtm" "mo3"))))

Normally, I'd think expanding that parameter in upstream emms might be
a good idea too, as why not make it work for someone else out-of-the-box
as well...

But given rather large degree of obscurity and variety of these old
file formats nowadays, I think there's high chance that simply no one
else uses them anymore, and adding so many weird extensions seems like
a good way to bump into them matching random other non-media files too,
unnecessarily.

So wanted to ask if maybe anyone else added (some of) those to local
'regex config as well, or maybe knows of other good reason to add them
there regardless?

If not, I think it's probably best to leave such one-off obscure
use-case to individual tweaks, and stick with common formats in defaults.


-- 
Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net