alezost / emms-state.el

Display track info in the mode line

About

This package provides a minor mode (emms-state-mode) for displaying description and playing time of the current track played by EMMS in the mode line. It is intended to be used as a substitution for emms-playing-time and emms-mode-line modes.

There are 2 main differences between emms-state-mode and emms-playing-time + emms-mode-line modes:

1. emms-state-mode displays an additional symbol (⏵/⏸/⏹ by default) to show if the current track is being played/paused/stopped.
2. If a track is more than an hour long, its playing time would be displayed in a form H:MM:SS instead of MM:SS.

For example, emms-state-mode will display a paused track like this:

⏸ 1:42:37(3:31:05) John Smith - My very long and boring song

While with emms-playing-time + emms-mode-line modes, it will be:

John Smith - My very long and boring song 102:37/211:05

And of course the default displayed string may be customized (see emms-state-mode-line-string variable).

Installation

Automatic

MELPA

This package can be installed from MELPA (with M-x package-install or M-x list-packages).

Quelpa

The package can be installed using quelpa like this:

(quelpa '(emms-state :fetcher github :repo "alezost/emms-state.el"))

Manual

For the manual installation, clone the repo, add the directory to load-path and add an autoload for the minor mode:

(add-to-list 'load-path "/path/to/emms-state-dir")
(autoload 'emms-state-mode "emms-state" nil t)

Usage

Simply M-x emms-state-mode, but make sure that emms-mode-line mode is disabled to avoid double title in your mode-line.

To enable emms-state-mode automatically, you may use:

(eval-after-load 'emms '(emms-state-mode))

emms-state.el's Issues

Feature confllict with https://github.com/tromey/emacs-status/

That repository also contains a library emms-status.el, providing a feature emms-status. Since that is older than your implementation, maybe you should rename yours.