sudo apt-get install emms mp3info
Below configuration prints the song title if exists, else it removes the path info and displays only filename on the mod-line. And also it defines some global keys and auto loads a playlist.
(display-time)
(require 'emms)
(require 'emms-setup)
(emms-default-players)
(emms-standard)
(emms-all)
(require 'emms-player-simple)
(require 'emms-source-file)
(require 'emms-source-playlist)
(setq emms-info-asynchronously nil)
(setq emms-player-list '(emms-player-mpg321
emms-player-ogg123
emms-player-mplayer))
;;(require 'emms-mode-line)
;;(emms-mode-line 1)
(require 'emms-playing-time)
(emms-playing-time 1)
(setq emms-mode-line-mode-line-function
(lambda nil
(let ((track (emms-playlist-current-selected-track)))
(let ((title (emms-track-get track 'info-title)))
(let ((name (emms-track-get track 'name)))
(if (not (null title))
(format emms-mode-line-format title)
(if (not (null (string-match "^url: " (emms-track-simple-description track))))
(format emms-mode-line-format "Internet Radio")
(setq name2 (replace-regexp-in-string ".*\/" "" name))
(format emms-mode-line-format name2))))))))
(emms-mode-line-disable)
(emms-mode-line-enable)
(load "emms")
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c p") 'emms-pause)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-
(global-set-key (kbd "C-
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c f") 'emms-show)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c n") 'emms-next)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c P") 'emms-previous)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c r") 'emms-random)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c s") 'emms-stop)
(autoload 'emms "/home/barol/mp3/sample.mp3" t) ;;must be valid path
(emms-add-playlist "/home/barol/sample.playlist")
(emms-shuffle)