Multimedia support in KDE is broken

[5HT2]

🐛 Bug report

What issue are you facing

Multimedia support is broken, as such media keys are also broken. I cannot pause / skip in the multimedia center on KDE

Steps to reproduce

1. Play a song
2. Open multimedia center

Environment

Operating System: KDE neon 5.17
KDE Plasma Version: 5.17.0
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.63.0
Qt Version: 5.13.1
Kernel Version: 5.0.0-31-generic
OS Type: 64-bit
Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i5-6300HQ CPU @ 2.30GHz
Memory: 7.6 GiB of RAM

Which version of Auryo?

2.4.0

[5HT2]

Example multimedia:

Album artwork doesn't show because the soundcloud website doesn't support it but at least time and skipping works

[sneljo1]

Will mark this as fixed, please notify me if the issue persist with the version I am about to release.

[BlobCodes]

It correctly shows the thumbnail now (although in a very bad quality)
As you can see, the times are not correctly shown.

[sneljo1]

Allright, I can fix the thumbnail for sure. For the position, I will have to check. I have a hard time testing MPRIS. I've been using Ubuntu as my testing distro, but I am unable to get the MPRIS widget to show up for some reason.

[5HT2]

Try KDE Neon, it's multimedia support is years better

[BlobCodes]

@Superjo149 Just saw the new commit eaa544f and tried it.

Although media playback didn't work when testing (and the time given to the widget differs from the real time), everything now looks pretty nice.

[sneljo1]

Neat, will wait to release until I get some more features or bugs in.

[sneljo1]

Not sure what is up with the length & position. I'll need to check out the spec again. I think I'm passing milliseconds, but it might need something else. But the other fixes are in in the new v2.5.3

[BlobCodes]

@Superjo149 I just tried some things and have some hints how to solve this.

I actually got auryo to show the correct times, by changing the following line:

return Math.round(time * 1e3);

..into..

return Math.round(time * 1e6);

(You gave milliseconds, but it wanted microseconds)

Here's a screenshot:

(Please notice the time being 1-2 seconds off , I think that's because auryo uses rounding)

One major flaw however is that when pausing/resuming a track, the played time gets reset in the widget only.

(Paused and resumed after half of the track)

Looks like correct mpris support is near 😄

[BlobCodes]

Just found out that the pause/resume time reset bug only occurs when I enabled automatic detection of media players.

Meaning the following must have happened:

• When pausing, KDE looks for other audio sources (which it finds)
• Because of that, KDE forgets how much was already played
• Auryo does not re-send the current location

[BlobCodes]

MPRIS Docs -> https://specifications.freedesktop.org/mpris-spec/latest/Player_Interface.html

Here you can see it actually wants microseconds.