Listening To Multiple Media Streams On The Emacspeak Audio Desktop

The GitHub version of Emacspeak now supports launching and controlling multiple media streams. This enables one to listen to the news while playing a music stream, or relaxing nature sounds.

Here are some examples of using this feature:

1. Launch your favorite news station — BBC World Service in my case — C-e ; RET.
2. Place the News on the left channel — C-e ; (.
3. Persist the currently playing News stream by invoking command emacspeak-m-player-persist-stream bound to C-e ; \. This lets you launch a second stream via Emacspeak media key C-e ; rather than controlling the currently playing stream.
4. Launch a classical music media-stream — C-e ; lu RET for a lullaby media stream.
5. Now Emacspeak M-Player commands will control the most recently launched stream; you can once again invoke command emacspeak-m-player-persist-stream if you wish.
6. The previously launched (and still playing) News stream is now in a buffer named *Persistent-...*. Command emacspeak-wizards-view-buffers-filtered-by-m-player-mode can be used to list buffers that hold a live m-player instance. It is bound to b in emacspeak-m-player-mode. I also bind this command to C-; ; in my global keymap.
7. You can make an M-Player instance current by switching to its buffer and invoking command emacspeak-m-player-restore-process bound to / in emacspeak-m-player-mode.

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