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Playerctl not fetching Mozilla Firefox metadata

Open rayshabh opened this issue 3 years ago • 3 comments

Whenever I play video/audio from streaming websites like YouTube, Spotify Web Client, etc. using Mozilla Firefox (v 106.0.1), Playerctl does not fetch any metadata, though the control keys like play/pause actions are working.

I've checked Playerctl with VLC, and it works well and collects the metadata for the same.

Please help to configure Playerctl so that it starts fetching metadata of Firefox too.

Thanks in advance!

rayshabh avatar Oct 27 '22 20:10 rayshabh

Not sure Firefox (v 106.0.1) provides any "informative" metadata -- probably does not based on what you've reported above. I've checked with Firefox (v 105) and can confirm that it does not return any useful metadata, so the "issue" is most likely with Firefox. This is all the metadata that it returns when playing a youtube video: {'mpris:trackid': '/org/mpris/MediaPlayer2/firefox', 'xesam:album': '', 'xesam:artist': [''], 'xesam:title': 'Firefox is playing media'}

dylanlobo avatar Oct 27 '22 21:10 dylanlobo

This is all the metadata that it returns when playing a youtube video: {'mpris:trackid': '/org/mpris/MediaPlayer2/firefox', 'xesam:album': '', 'xesam:artist': [''], 'xesam:title': 'Firefox is playing media'}

Yes, exactly! This is what Firefox returns.

rayshabh avatar Oct 28 '22 11:10 rayshabh

yeah well it isn't a playerctl issue then...better open it on mozilla bugzilla then

code-IM-perfect avatar Nov 12 '22 20:11 code-IM-perfect