Bug 509993

Summary: Chromium audio entries in volume applet do not reflect tab titles
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: Sanmay <sanmaycjoshi+kde>
Component: Audio Volume widgetAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM    
Severity: wishlist CC: isma.af, nicolas.fella
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 6.4.4   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Fedora RPMs   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Sanmay 2025-09-27 10:59:15 UTC 
SUMMARY
Chromium audio entries in volume applet do not reflect tab titles

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Open Chromium and play a music video on YouTube.
2. Open a new window/tab in Chromium and play another music video.
3. Check the application tab in the volume applet under the system tray on the taskbar.

OBSERVED RESULT
There are two entries for Chromium in the volume applet, both labeled simply as "Chromium."

EXPECTED RESULT
The entries in the volume applet should reflect the titles of the tabs that are currently playing audio, similar to the behavior for Firefox.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Fedora Linux 42
KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.17.0
Qt Version: 6.9.1
Kernel Version: 6.15.9-201.fc42.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 6 × 11th Gen Intel® Core™ i5-11400H @ 2.70GHz
Memory: 8 GiB of RAM (7.5 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor 1: Intel® UHD Graphics
Graphics Processor 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop GPU
Manufacturer: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
Product Name: ASUS TUF Gaming F15 FX506HC_FX506HC
System Version: 1.0
Comment 1 Nicolas Fella 2025-09-27 13:09:08 UTC 
Chromium does not expose this information to PulseAudio, so we cannot display it
Comment 2 Sanmay 2025-09-27 19:21:49 UTC 
(In reply to Nicolas Fella from comment #1)
> Chromium does not expose this information to PulseAudio, so we cannot
> display it

Oh. Would've been really nice to have that. Makes KDE feel polished.

I have a pretty limited understanding on this, but any chance that it can be made to work via MPRIS?
Comment 3 Sanmay 2025-10-09 10:20:55 UTC 
Relevant report in Chromium Issue Tracker: https://issues.chromium.org/issues/41346246 
Seems to be 'not planned'.