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MPRIS support has been incomplete for years and this has been brought up multiple times on this forum. I wouldn't get my hopes up on this getting fixed any time soon.
I recently wrote a small program that gets the data from the spotify web api and makes it accessible using MPRIS. You can try that if you need support for Position, Seeked and Volume: https://github.com/freundTech/SpotPRIS2
> MPRIS support has been incomplete for years and this has been brought up multiple times on this forum. I wouldn't get my hopes up on this getting fixed any time soon.
I realize that. It's just so frustrating that it's so simple yet no one bothers. I mean really give me a crack at the source code and I could fix it in an afternoon.
> I recently wrote a small program that gets the data from the spotify web api and makes it accessible using MPRIS. You can try that if you need support for Position, Seeked and Volume: https://github.com/freundTech/SpotPRIS2
That's not really helpful since you can't disable MPRIS in the app. You'd end up with 2 basically duplicate interfaces. It might be useful for 3rd party Spotify players though.
I am a contributor to the unofficial flatpak Spotify package and we have actually done a lot to workaround several of the official package's paper cuts/bugs.
It's possible to shim the default MPRIS interface. Basically intercept it and fill in the missing bits with the web api, and between the 2 create an actual working complete interface as far as the end user is concerned. One of these days I'll get around to it...
I have the same problem. Without MPRIS support I can't use the play/stop/next keys of my keyboard in Spotify web while I'm working. I would like to use Spotify web version in the same way I use YouTube with the keyboard media keys.
I don't want to listen music in YouTube. We are paying for the Spotify service.
By the way I'm using Ubuntu (Linux).
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