Re: Grid thumbnail arrangement of a playlist

[Yoni Rabkin]

Yuchen Pei <ycp@gnu.org> writes:

> With this one can listen to radio or watch TV with emms with a nicer
> interface.

That's a subjective statement. For me, the purely textual interface of
Emms' playlist is an advantage and my preference.

> So kind of like image-dired thumbnail mode.

Never used it, but I can readily imagine what it probably looks like.

> emms can already play url streams, so that's not a problem.
>
> I imagine the change could be as simple as
>
> 1. representing a track by an image, or a default image if none is
> specified
> 2. instead of a list of things representing tracks, display them in a
> grid, and the selection can move horizontally as well as vertically
>
> I would be interested in implementing it.
>
> What do you think?

I see no reason why not. It could be called emms-browser-tiled.el or
similar, since it is conceptually a type of browser and would probably
lean on browser code. Please feel free to add a branch on the Savannah
repo for it.

-- 
   "Cut your own wood and it will warm you twice"