topic Re: Position from DBus in Desktop (Linux)

Position from DBus

philjackson — Sat, 14 Mar 2020 22:38:30 GMT

I posted this in the main forums earlier and have since found many other examples of people asking for this feature. I wanted to put it here to add my voice, just in case the developers actually read these.

Would it be possible for the devs to implement string:'Position' on the DBUS interface? At the moment it returns "int64 0" no matter the current position.

Full example from the CLI:

dbus-send --print-reply --session --dest=org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.spotify /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.Get string:'org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player' string:'Position'

Re: Position from DBus

Ivan — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 09:40:19 GMT

Hey there @philjackson,

Thanks for reaching out to the Community about this.

Spotify constantly strives to improve the user experience with its features and the easiest way to achieve this is by regular app updates. That’s why we appreciate you taking the time to share your suggestion with the Community.

If you think other users might also like it, go ahead and create an idea on the relevant idea board. We always take new ideas and feedback into consideration to improve the app. Here you can read more on how ideas work.

We also suggest checking this help article for useful tips on how to submit an idea. As a heads-up, it's good to know that the higher the number of votes an idea gets, the more likely it is for the idea to be implemented 🙂

Hope this helps. Let us know if you have any more questions.

Re: Position from DBus

JasonLG1979 — Sun, 22 Mar 2020 19:55:08 GMT

That's not an "Idea" to be upvoted. Position is literately a required MPRIS prop. Your MPRIS implementation is broken. That's a bug.

Re: Position from DBus

andunai — Sun, 14 Nov 2021 12:57:54 GMT

I second this. This is not an idea but a missing functionality that should be implemented according to the standard.

This is indeed a bug or an oversight and has been ignored for more than a year.

Hey Spotify, will you take a look at this?

Re: Position from DBus

andunai — Wed, 23 Feb 2022 15:23:19 GMT

It's been almost 2 YEARS. Any updates?..

Re: Position from DBus

pgomes — Sun, 06 Mar 2022 11:53:56 GMT

Hi, Linux client volunteer here. The code that concludes the implementation of org.mpris.MediaPlayer2 and org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player (including Position and SetPosition) was merged few days ago, and should be available in the next preview versions.

Re: Position from DBus

andunai — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 18:15:34 GMT

Where can we download the preview version?

Re: Position from DBus

pgomes — Sun, 03 Apr 2022 18:26:28 GMT

Actually you can't download the preview. It's for internal test only. You have to wait the next official release.