Question regarding MPRIS

[fijar-lazuardy]

If I play a video, tidal will shown as "chromium.instance" instead of "tidal-hifi" is it a bug?

[Mastermindzh]

Hey @fijar-lazuardy,

Yes it is.
We've been having a hard time removing "chromium.instance" and other chromium-related names in various places.
Removing it often means disabling parts of the browser as well, which would have adverse affects on the player.

I'll have a look when I can to see if this one is an easy fix though.

[fijar-lazuardy]

no worries, it's not bothering or anything

[Mastermindzh]

@fijar-lazuardy

I just checked and it works as expected. I can successfully play/pause media using:

playerctl play-pause tidal-hifi to play and pause the videos.

I also found the following:

• playerctl -l doesn't always seem to list tidal-hifi, but even if not listed it does still work
• when you start tidal with a video preloaded, the addMpris function doesn't seem to execute, gotta look into that (bug)

Please tell me the steps you used to identify this 😄

[Mastermindzh]

the addMpris function does set up a player but it isn't hooked up to the video player. That seems to be a TIDAL thingy for now but might be fixed with the new API.

For now there doesn't seem to be anything I can do.

[fijar-lazuardy]

Nice to hear and thanks for checking this! I'll try when I get home and put the result here

[fijar-lazuardy]

System
OS: Linux Mint 21.3 x86_64
Kernel: 5.15.0-91-generic
Packages: 2185 (dpkg)
Shell: zsh 5.8.1
DE: Xfce 4.18
WM: Xfwm4
Terminal: kitty
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D (16) @ 3.000GHz
GPU: AMD ATI 2d:00.0 Device 73ef
Memory: 6903MiB / 32012MiB
tidal-hifi version: 5.14.1

case 1:

playerctl -l

play video and run

playerctl -l

again does not update MPRIS

case 2:
play video right after tidal opened

[Mastermindzh]

Ah!

I didn't check wether metadata is updated.... I only checked controls (e.g. play).
It makes way more sense that the data wouldn't be updated correctly though (I never looked at video support)

Thanks for the testing!

[mitteneer]

Somewhat unrelated, but this will also happen on occasion as I'm skipping songs - often it will correctly begin as tidal-hifi, but after some skipping, my statusbar which uses playerctl to track tidal-hifi will stop updating (I also stop receiving notifications from dunst) and using playerctl afterwards will still list tidal-hifi, but with the metadat of some previous song, whereas there will some chromium instance which lists the actual current song. Not certain if this occurs only while I skip songs, or if it happens naturally during track progression. Sometimes it will correct itself, but not certain how to cause "corrections" on demand.