Is MPRIS Media Player Support a thing?

[sonich2401]

I assumed that MPRIS support would make it so my media player applets in my desktop environment would accept shairport-sync as a media source but it is not. Does MPRIS support mean I can use the media player applet to change tracks? I would make a issue ticket but I dont want to make a ticket if the program is working as intended. I tried this on XFCE and Plasma

I was able to pull the metadata from MPRIS so I know that functionality is working and shairport-sync-mpris-test-client is showing the mpris data coming through.

My build settings are

4.1.1-alac-OpenSSL-Avahi-ALSA-pa-pw-stdout-pipe-soxr-metadata-mqtt-dbus-mpris-sysconfdir:/etc
Linux linux 5.15.0-60-generic #66~20.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jan 25 09:41:30 UTC 2023 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[mikebrady]

Thanks for the question. TBH I haven't tried it recently. AFAIK, MPRIS media player applets assume the MPRIS service is on the session bus rather than the system bus. IIRC, you'd have to start Shairport Sync as a user service (e.g., experimentally, from a command line window) and also set the mpris_service_bus option to "session". Any control that the applet would have would depend on what remote control the source app (e.g. Spotify or the Music app) allows, which is a bit variable.

[sonich2401]

That is what I needed. Thanks mate.