listen.el

This package aims to provide a simple audio/music player for Emacs. It should "just work," with little-to-no configuration, have intuitive commands, and be easily extended and customized. (Contrast to setting up EMMS, or having to configure external players like MPD.) A Transient menu, under the command listen, is the primary entry point.

The only external dependency is VLC, which is currently the only player backend that is supported. (Other backends may easily be added; see library listen-vlc for example.) Track metadata is read using EMMS’s native Elisp metadata library, which has been imported into this package.

Queues are provided as the means to play consecutive tracks, and they are shown in a vtable-based view buffer. They are persisted between sessions using the persist library, and they may be bookmarked.

The primary interface to one’s music library is through the filesystem, by selecting a file to play, or by adding files and directories to a queue. Although MPD is not required, support is provided for finding files from a local MPD server’s library using MPD’s metadata searching.

A simple "library" view is provided that shows a list of files organized into a hierarchy by genre, date, artist, album, etc. (This will be made more configurable and useful in the future.)

Note a silly limitation: a track may be present in a queue only once (but who would want to have a track more than once in a playlist).

(use-package listen
  ;; For Emacs 29:
  :init (unless (package-installed-p 'listen)
          (package-vc-install '(listen :url "https://github.com/alphapapa/listen.el.git")))
  ;; For Emacs 30+:
  :vc (:fetcher github :repo "alphapapa/listen.el"))