Re: emms-idapi merged into main branch

[Fran Burstall (Gmail)]

It seems I need to set 

(setq emms-idapi-service 'musicbrainz)

else I get 

emms-idapi-search: ‘nil’ is an unsupported service.

when I try emms-idapi-browser-search-album-artist-at.

---Fran

On Wed, 5 Jun 2024 at 16:03, Yoni Rabkin <yoni@rabkins.net> wrote:

I've merged the work on emms-idapi, a framework for searching online
music databases, into the main branch.

Currently, you can call a function such as
`emms-idapi-browser-search-album-artist-at' on the track at point to
search for both the album and the artist (there are also functions for
artist-only and album-only search.)

Still in development are the following features:

    - filename-based search
    - discogs API support
    - search for a specific track
    - return all of the tracks for a specific album
    - documentation (only once things are stable)

Some of those are easy. Other features, such as returning all of the
tracks on an album are non-trivial. An album could have 30 releases
which happened at different times, in different markets, and in
different formats (for instance, the vinyl release will often have
different tracks versus a CD or online release). You'd need to
positively identify the album first, then ask for the track listing.

I'll probably add discogs support next, then go back to adding those
features just so I can compare those features across different services
and make sure they work.

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