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67 lines
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# Emmental
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Emmental is a music player built using Python, GStreamer, and GTK.
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It tries to make it really easy to listen to your music, the default
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"Collection" playlist contains all your music files and is a fallback when
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other playlists run out of tracks.
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## Features
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* MPRIS2
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* ReplayGain
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* Gapless playback
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* Background listening mode
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* Automatically pause after a user-configured number of tracks
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* Playlist creation and management
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* Automatic playlists based on Artists, Albums, Genres, Decades, and Years
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* Multiple library path support
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* Plays all audio formats supported by GStreamer
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* Renamed and updated tracks detection (using MusicBrainzIDs)
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## Dependencies
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* Python3
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* dateutil
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* gobject
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* liblistenbrainz
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* musicbrainzngs
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* mutagen
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* pyxdg
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* GStreamer
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* GStreamer good plugins (optional)
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* GStreamer bad plugins (optional)
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* GStreamer ugly plugins (optional)
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* GTK4
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* xdg-user-dirs-gtk
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* Libadwaita
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## Installing
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Running `make install` will install Emmental to `/usr/local` by default.
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This can be changed during install:
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```
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PREFIX=/usr make install
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```
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ArchLinux users can also install Emmental though the
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[AUR](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/emmental)
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## Q & A
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### 1. What's with the name? Why 'emmental'?
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Emmental was the cheese used in a
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[late-2018 experiment](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/hip-hop-and-mozart-improve-flavor-swiss-cheese-180971721/)
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to learn if playing music while a cheese ages has an impact on flavor
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(spoiler alert: it did). I have a habit of naming projects and computers after
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cheeses, so when I started this project I named it after the cheese used in
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this experiment.
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### 2. How do I edit my tracks?
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Emmental doesn't have a built-in tag editor but it can detect when track
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files have been edited in an external program. I highly recommend using a
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dedicated tag editing program like
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[MusicBrainz Picard](https://picard.musicbrainz.org/), it does a much better
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job at tag editing than I ever will.
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### 3. What is the ReplayGain "Decide automatically" option?
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ReplayGain has two operating modes, "track" and "album", that the user can
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select between. Emmental builds on this and can automatically choose between
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the two based on the source playlist for a given track. This means if the
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current track comes from an Album playlist, ReplayGain will use "album mode"
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and if it comes from other playlists it will use "track mode".
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