When using an audioplayer, often MPRIS (https://specifications.freedesktop.org/mpris-spec/latest/) can be used. Theoretically, KDE Plasma should have support for it. However, on my system the media control plasmoid(?) says: No song playing, while a song is playing. I tried to find the problem but got not very far: - The media control plasmoid/widget (I don't know the correct name, in German the panel is called: "Mediawiedergabe") in the system tray always shows: "There are no playing media." (actually it says: "Es werden keine Medien wiedergegeben.") - The hotkeys on my keyboard for media controls are correctly mapped within the system settings but have no effect. - My audio player (Strawberry) supports MPRIS. I can control the player correctly with playerctl (https://github.com/altdesktop/playerctl) - KDE connect recognizes the playing track. Ironically, this means, that I can pause the music with my smartphone with one click but not with my keyboard hotkey. I'm not sure, what I can do to find the error. I also have an OpenSUSE and there the media controls work with KDE therefore I am reporting this here. Maybe I have only missed to install the correct package. Additional information: I'm not using PulseAudio but Jack/ALSA, but that should not be relevant to this issue. My KDE Plasma version is: 5.19.4, frameworks: 5.73.0
MPRIS works for me, but it could also be a bug with your player. Please try with a different one, and make sure that dbus is running.
I have already tested with two different players (Strawberry and mpv with mpv-mpris plugin), both work with playerctl. Also these commands work exactly as expected: ``` qdbus org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.strawberry /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player.PlayPause qdbus org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.strawberry /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player.PlaybackStatus ``` playerctl also detects Strawberry and mpv via MPRIS/Dbus. I'm pretty sure, KDE connect also uses MPRIS and this works as well.
Please upgrade to 5.19.5 then.
I have done that. It shows the exact same behaviour.
I tried to debug this further and remerged plasma-workspace with debug useflag and the error was gone magically. I have remerged _without_ debug useflag then and logged out and in again and it seems to work now. I'm not sure why but will close this bug for now. Will reopen, if it won't persist. Thanks anyway.
