Using MPRIS for playback detection #113

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opened 2022-06-21 09:34:38 +00:00 by WhyNotHugo · 2 comments

WhyNotHugo commented

2022-06-21 09:34:38 +00:00

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MPRIS is a D-Bus API by which multimedia applications can register themselves to handle when a user presses the "play/pause" buttons on keyboards/speakers/headphones.

In general, anything that's a media player registers via this API -- including music players and browsers.

Using the MPRIS API to determine "is there currently any media playing" sounds like a very solid solution -- definitely less guessing and false positive than using pulseaudio and peak detection.

MPRIS is a D-Bus API by which multimedia applications can register themselves to handle when a user presses the "play/pause" buttons on keyboards/speakers/headphones. In general, anything that's a media player registers via this API -- including music players and browsers. Using the MPRIS API to determine "is there currently any media playing" sounds like a very solid solution -- definitely less guessing and false positive than using pulseaudio and peak detection.