MPRIS is the spec that Linux desktops use to make players transfer metadata about the thing they are playing and its state.

For example: title, artists, cover art, position, playing/paused, etc…

It doesn’t specify where the metadata should come from, for example the xesam:asText can be populated with lyrics from the metadata embedded in the song file itself, a companion .lrc file or even fetched from lrclib by the player, as long as the player is the one doing the IO and populating it.

Not a lot. The only ones I know of are:

• Supersonic (got my modification upstreamed 🎉)
• fooyin
• Feishin

so yeah, a lot of people wont be able to use it :( tho they still can use one of the many that fetch from lrclib

wdym?

I specifically don’t use AI for questions, just read the docs.