unable to disable command fallback even when using `-p`

[nejni-marji]

When I use playerctl, I want it to always act upon the most recent player or fail. I thought -p would enable this, so I set my hotkeys to use: playerctl -p $(playerctl -l | head -n1). However, for some clients this behavior is simply impossible. Specifically, if there are multiple instances of the same application, and the most recent is the first one opened, it's name as shown in playerctl -l will also match other instances, leading to this bizarre fallback behavior.

If the -p flag didn't match all instances of the name given, then this would be possible, and anyone who wanted the old behavior could do use -p $(playerctl -l | grep '^mpv\..*') instead of -p mpv.

I haven't put it on github yet, but I did make a patch that enables this behavior for my own personal use.

[nejni-marji]

the reason its like this is that the mpris backend that assigns these doesnt start assigning discriminators until it actually needs to. if you had mpv.0, mpv.1, mpv.2 then we wouldnt be in this mess, AND you could do -p mpv to match any of them and itd be fine cuz you could apply the discriminator to them easily

[nejni-marji]

i figured out i could get what i wanted with code like this

player = prioritylist[0]
if "." in player {
  flag = "--player-name"
  opt = player
} else {
  flag = "--ignore"
  prioritylist.del(player)
  opt = prioritylist.join(",")
}
eval("playerctl", flag, opt)

except i already patched my binary and honestly i'm just wondering if anyone actually likes this behavior