Re: 'idea' of a new backend [bit off-topic]

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Nuutti Kotivuori <nuutti.kotivuori@sonera.com> writes:

> Me and my friend were discussing how Gnus does everything already -
> all nnultimate and nnslashdot backends and whatnot. I use Gnus to read
> some other news like information that I parse into a mh dir by a Perl
> script. And I also download some cartoons from the web to maildirs and
> view them with gnus. I like ticking cartoons I like for later review.
>
> OK so. 'nnmp3'. Gnus backend which works pretty much like
> nneething. Lists 'mp3' files and plays them with a player. Would need
> a lot of extra glue for some things.
>
> Now, think about scoring for mp3:s - and adaptive scoring. Makes you
> grin, doesn't it?

It does.  :-)

However, music is quite unlike all the other things that Gnus
handles.  News, mail, message boards and cartoons sites basically
consists of something that you wish to view once, and once only,
except a very few exceptional pieces that you want to have around.
Music isn't really like that -- you want to have it all hang around,
forever.

Gnus might not be the right interface to a music player, but Emacs
certainly is: <URL: http://quimby.gnus.org/jukebox/jukebox.html>

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   larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen