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Format: 39-min talk; Q&A: BigBlueButton conference room  
Status: Q&A to be extracted from the room recordings  





# Talk

<div class="vid"><video controls preload="none" id="emms-mainVideo"><source src="https://media.emacsconf.org/2023/emacsconf-2023-emms--emacs-multimedia-system-emms--yoni-rabkin--main.webm" />captions="""<track label="English" kind="captions" srclang="en" src="/2023/captions/emacsconf-2023-emms--emacs-multimedia-system-emms--yoni-rabkin--main.vtt" default />"""<track kind="chapters" label="Chapters" src="/2023/captions/emacsconf-2023-emms--emacs-multimedia-system-emms--yoni-rabkin--main--chapters.vtt" /><p><em>Your browser does not support the video tag. Please download the video instead.</em></p></video>[[!template id="chapters" vidid="emms-mainVideo" data="""
00:00.000 Introduction
01:03.320 The structure of this talk
01:21.320 Introduction to Emms: The practical part
08:04.240 The modeline
11:01.200 Meta-playlist mode
11:29.860 The browser
13:19.920 How Emms works: The technical part
16:23.820 The Emms core
16:36.440 Tracks
17:18.460 Playlist
18:22.080 Sources
19:22.160 Players
20:20.520 Info
21:36.660 The cache
22:51.620 Healthy back and forth: mpv, mpd, and GNU.FM
23:31.560 MPV
24:47.470 MPD
26:07.440 GNU FM and Libre FM
27:12.560 How we work: Emms development
28:52.590 The Rime Of The Ancient Maintainer
29:06.080 The life and times of an Emms patch
31:24.080 Let It Go: The release process
32:23.400 It Is Not In Our Stars, But In Ourselves: Future directions
34:44.849 Development policies: Interface language
36:05.980 Development policies: Freedom
38:12.370 Acknowledgements

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# Q&A

<div class="vid"><video controls preload="none" id="emms-qanda"><source src="https://media.emacsconf.org/2023/emacsconf-2023-emms--emacs-multimedia-system-emms--yoni-rabkin--answers.webm" />captions="""<track label="English" kind="captions" srclang="en" src="/2023/captions/emacsconf-2023-emms--emacs-multimedia-system-emms--yoni-rabkin--answers.vtt" default />"""<p><em>Your browser does not support the video tag. Please download the video instead.</em></p></video><div>Listen to just the audio:<br /><audio controls preload="none" id="emms-qanda-audio" src="https://media.emacsconf.org/2023/emacsconf-2023-emms--emacs-multimedia-system-emms--yoni-rabkin--answers.opus"></audio></div><div></div>Duration: 32:38 minutes<div class="files resources"><ul><li><a href="https://media.emacsconf.org/2023/emacsconf-2023-emms--emacs-multimedia-system-emms--yoni-rabkin--answers.json">Download --answers.json (1.3MB)</a></li><li><a href="https://media.emacsconf.org/2023/emacsconf-2023-emms--emacs-multimedia-system-emms--yoni-rabkin--answers.opus">Download --answers.opus (19MB)</a></li><li><a href="https://media.emacsconf.org/2023/emacsconf-2023-emms--emacs-multimedia-system-emms--yoni-rabkin--answers.vtt">Download --answers.vtt</a> (unedited)</li><li><a href="https://media.emacsconf.org/2023/emacsconf-2023-emms--emacs-multimedia-system-emms--yoni-rabkin--answers.webm">Download --answers.webm (52MB)</a></li></ul></div></div>
# Description
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