Is it possible to stop the actual spotify client from showing up in the player list when using spotpris2?

[morgangrubb]

Thank you for creating this. Installed it on neon 5.20.3 and it works perfectly.

However the kde media player status bar plugin defaults to the spotify application and I was wondering if there was a way to stop that behaviour? Since spotpris2 isn't relying on it, possibly blocking all mpris messages from it would solve the issue?

[freundTech]

As far as I know there isn't a way to disable the mpris interface in spotify. However if you run spotpris with -s it will "steal" spotify's mpris name. This requires starting spotpris before spotify.

[morgangrubb]

I'm using the version installed by pip and apparently that's not a thing?

morgan@angua:~/.config/systemd/user$ spotpris2 -s
usage: spotpris2 [-h] [-d DEVICE [DEVICE ...]] [-i DEVICE [DEVICE ...]] [-a] [-l [{name,id}]]
spotpris2: error: unrecognized arguments: -s
morgan@angua:~/.config/systemd/user$ spotpris2 -h
usage: spotpris2 [-h] [-d DEVICE [DEVICE ...]] [-i DEVICE [DEVICE ...]] [-a] [-l [{name,id}]]

Control Spotify Connect devices using MPRIS2

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -d DEVICE [DEVICE ...], --devices DEVICE [DEVICE ...]
                        Only create interfaces for the listed devices
  -i DEVICE [DEVICE ...], --ignore DEVICE [DEVICE ...]
                        Ignore the listed devices
  -a, --auto            Automatically control the active device
  -l [{name,id}], --list [{name,id}]
                        List available devices and exit
morgan@angua:~/.config/systemd/user$ 

[freundTech]

Oh. Sorry. Looks like I haven't pushed a release to PIP since implementing that.
I'll see if I can find some time to do that in the next few days.

You can also manually install from the master branch, if you want to get that feature now.

[TiGR]

@freundTech any news on that new release?