Bug 401595

Summary: Next/Previous track buttons always disabled/grayed out with Pandora.com
Product: [Plasma] plasma-browser-integration Reporter: Ivan Adzhubey <iadzhubey>
Component: generalAssignee: Kai Uwe Broulik <kde>
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Kubuntu   
OS: Linux   
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Description Ivan Adzhubey 2018-12-01 02:54:15 UTC 
SUMMARY
Next/Previous track buttons always disabled/grayed out with Pandora.com
Only Start/Stop playback button is available. This is not enough functionality to justify downloading and installing an add-on.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Open pandora.com and login to your account.
2. Start playing radio station / album / playlist (does not matter)
3. 

OBSERVED RESULT
Next/previous track buttons grayed out permanently

EXPECTED RESULT
Next/previous track buttons allow to skip to next/previous track, where/when it is allowed by the streaming service played by the browser.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Windows: 
MacOS: 
Linux/KDE Plasma: 
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version: 5.14.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.52.0
Qt Version: 5.11.1

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Comment 1 Kai Uwe Broulik 2018-12-01 11:45:54 UTC 
Try enabling "enhanced media controls" in settings. However, if the website doesn't register any callbacks for nexttrack/previoustrack there's not much we can do. Providing specific adaptors for every possible streaming website is outside the scope of this extension.
Comment 2 Ivan Adzhubey 2018-12-01 23:27:07 UTC 
(In reply to Kai Uwe Broulik from comment #1)
> Try enabling "enhanced media controls" in settings.

There is no such item anywhere in the settings to be found.

> However, if the website
> doesn't register any callbacks for nexttrack/previoustrack there's not much
> we can do. Providing specific adaptors for every possible streaming website
> is outside the scope of this extension.

Come on, there is only half a dozen popular streaming services available and only 3 of them are worth noticing (Spotify, Tidal, Pandora, in no particular order). If you do not want to support none of them then what's the point of bothering with releasing this widget?

By the way, Spotify web player does not trigger Plasma media player widget to show up at all, so I guess it is hopeless.

Sorry for bothering you and have a nice day.