Hi all, I've been trying for a while to use Org also to store and org-anize the data of my music and video files, so that I can conveniently access them via helm-org-ql and play them using EMMS. I was wondering if anyone is trying this too, and thought maybe it would be nice to share tips and hacks.
What I do is quite simple and rudimentary. For example, I have all my music files stored on a hard drive on my Raspberry. As a media server I use GNUMP3d, which is pretty clunky and outdated, but it works fine and is very easy for me to administer. GNUMP3d serves a local web page with the list of titles and artists. I convert that web to an Org node using org-web-tools (https://github.com/alphapapa/org-web-tools), and some extra elisp to clean up inconsistencies and format everything so that each artist/title is a sub-tree. The process is not quite fine-tuned: I have to see how labels and properties could be added automatically: music gender, year, etc. I have also defined a new type of link to be able to play the content (*.m3u) via EMMS[1], and I have also added a new action to helm-org-ql. Finally, in another section I am also storing links to radio stations, TV, single songs (captured with org-capture), etc. I have also found 'sacad' useful for downloading the cover art (https://github.com/desbma/sacad). This is my system for organizing my media files in Org. If anyone is interested, I can expand on specific details. And here, a couple of screenshots: https://i.imgur.com/NKybgPV.png https://i.imgur.com/DtfoyZl.jpg [1] #+begin_src emacs-lisp (org-link-set-parameters "url-media" :follow (lambda (path) (emms-play-url path)) :face '(:foreground "chocolate" :weight bold :underline t)) #+end_src Best regards, Juan Manuel
