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| -rw-r--r-- | volume-osd/Player.qml | 14 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | volume-osd/README.md | 19 |
2 files changed, 22 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/volume-osd/Player.qml b/volume-osd/Player.qml index 73f86af..7c17c0a 100644 --- a/volume-osd/Player.qml +++ b/volume-osd/Player.qml @@ -19,11 +19,17 @@ import QtQuick Singleton { id: root - // playerctld proxies whatever is playing and publishes it under its own - // name, so every real player shows up twice. Its own entry is skipped: - // controlling the player directly works whether or not playerctld is up. + // Two things proxy a real player and republish it under their own name, so + // one track can appear on three buses at once: a playing Navidrome tab + // showed up as firefox.instance_*, as plasma-browser-integration and as + // playerctld. Both proxies are skipped and the OSD talks to the browser's + // own entry, which is safe because none of the three exists until playback + // starts, and the browser's entry appeared whenever the plasma one did. An + // open but silent tab publishes nothing, so there is no row to lose. + readonly property var proxyNames: [".playerctld", ".plasma-browser-integration"] + readonly property var real: - Mpris.players.values.filter(p => !p.dbusName.endsWith(".playerctld")) + Mpris.players.values.filter(p => !root.proxyNames.some(n => p.dbusName.endsWith(n))) // Prefer something actually playing; otherwise keep the last one seen, so // pausing does not make the track row vanish mid-look. diff --git a/volume-osd/README.md b/volume-osd/README.md index 950edca..83a9495 100644 --- a/volume-osd/README.md +++ b/volume-osd/README.md @@ -35,19 +35,24 @@ there was anything clickable on it. It still takes no keyboard focus. Two things about MPRIS that are not obvious: -**playerctld publishes a duplicate.** It proxies whichever player is active -and republishes the metadata under `org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.playerctld`, so -every player appears twice. `Player.qml` drops that name and talks to the real -player, which works whether or not playerctld is running. +**Proxies publish duplicates.** playerctld proxies whichever player is +active and republishes it under `org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.playerctld`. With a +browser, plasma-browser-integration does the same, so one Navidrome tab was +live on three bus names at once. `Player.qml` drops both proxies and talks to +the browser's own entry. None of the three exists until playback starts, and +an open but silent tab publishes nothing at all. **Album art can be a reused temp path.** Audacious extracts embedded art to a file in its cache and rewrites that same path on each track, so the URL repeats while the image behind it changes. The source carries the track title as a cache buster and `cache: false`, or the previous track's cover stays on screen. -Verified against audacious and Firefox. Firefox is the interesting one: a tab -per stream, all under one bus name, which is where the playerctld filter above -would show up if it were wrong. Signal is untested. +Verified against audacious and Firefox playing Navidrome. Browsers do not +fill in everything: Navidrome sets no `mpris:artUrl`, so there is no cover to +show and the row renders without one, and it packs everything into +`xesam:title` ("Roxanne - The Police - Navidrome") leaving `xesam:artist` +empty. Neither is worked around, a title like that cannot be split back apart +without guessing where a real dash ends. Signal is untested. ## No keybinds to change |