Bug 507254

Summary: Media player system tray
Product: [Applications] amarok Reporter: Damien Noir <damiennoir666>
Component: D-Bus interfacesAssignee: Amarok Bugs <amarok-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: alex.merry, tuomas
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 3.3.0   
Target Milestone: kf5   
Platform: Arch Linux   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Attachments: screenshot
amarok
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sayonara

Description Damien Noir 2025-07-20 04:31:34 UTC
Created attachment 183368 [details]
screenshot

Amarok doesn't show album covers on the media player system tray
Comment 1 Tuomas Nurmi 2025-07-20 08:49:58 UTC
 Thank you for the report!
Can you verify if this is the case with embedded covers only? (That is, is cover art shown if you have manually set it for a track in Amarok?)
If this is the case, then an earlier bug report on this is at https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=357620

If no manually set cover art is visible either, then I'd like to verify if you are using flatpak version or one installed from the distribution package management?
Comment 2 Damien Noir 2025-07-20 09:20:06 UTC
This only happens with amarok, not with sayonara, as you can see from the screenshot that I attach. I was installing both players from source via the yay -S command on an arch-based distro.
Comment 3 Damien Noir 2025-07-20 09:20:43 UTC
Created attachment 183370 [details]
amarok
Comment 4 Damien Noir 2025-07-20 09:21:05 UTC
Created attachment 183371 [details]
amarok2
Comment 5 Damien Noir 2025-07-20 09:21:23 UTC
Created attachment 183372 [details]
sayonara
Comment 6 Tuomas Nurmi 2025-07-20 10:20:12 UTC
Thank you for the extra details.

Ok, so I assume that that is embedded coverart. Then this is a known bug in Amarok ( https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=357620 ); embedded coverart is not transmitted through mpris to media player widgets etc. Marking this report as duplicate in favour of the earlier one, but I'll try fixing the issue today.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 357620 ***
Comment 7 Damien Noir 2025-07-20 10:34:59 UTC
Thank you, looking forward for the update.