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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.
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