Created attachment 113708 [details] spotify Media Player widget doesn't update song progress in the background. When a song is playing for like 1 minute and I click on widget it only then starts progress bar. And when I close widget, progress bar stops. When I open widget it continues where it stopped when closing.
That is intentional to save energy. When opening the popup, it queries the current position from the player, which doesn't seem to work here. I have never experience this behavior. Can you try to reproduce with a different player?
YouTube in Firefox via Plasma Integration plugin and Deadbeef with mpris2 plugin work fine. So it must be an issue with Spotify - I use flatpak version. I believe widget in 5.12 worked also for Spotify, but I'm not 100 % sure. Also I noticed that widget doesn't show album art from Spotify. This definitely worked in 5.12 widget.
Hm, I just had the slider stuck, but after plasmashell restart it worked. Definitely something wonky there, perhaps related to Bug 394562 Can you check the output of qdbus org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.THEPLAYER /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player.Metadata (with THEPLAYER being e.g spotify or something, check with qdbus | grep mpris), there should be a "mpris:artUrl" in there, if not, that's the player's fault.
Sure. ~> qdbus org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.spotify /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player.Metadata mpris:artUrl: https://open.spotify.com/image/42bc52195b896337bbc2fccbb838d5b903efc1ab mpris:length: 355613000 mpris:trackid: spotify:track:1c3eluqs0Cl9b4Zswqn9c5 xesam:album: Orthodox / Mortal Memories xesam:albumArtist: Krabathor xesam:artist: Krabathor xesam:autoRating: 0.01 xesam:discNumber: 1 xesam:title: Slavery - Bonus Track xesam:trackNumber: 15 xesam:url: https://open.spotify.com/track/1c3eluqs0Cl9b4Zswqn9c5 So there is an URL for cover and yet cover is not displayed. Also progress bar is stuck at 0:00. When I switched next song, cover is still not displayed, but progress bar starts when I open widget and behaves like I described in bug. However I just found out, that when I turn on VPN, which only has connection via proxy, spotify goes to offline mode and widget starts showing covers. I have automatic proxy configuration. So this whole cover problem seems to be on my side and related to proxy. I guess we should forget about covers for now and focus on progress bar.
Alright, thanks for your investigation. What's the output of $ qdbus org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.spotify /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player.Rate Should be 1 or at least greater than zero. This is what tells it how fast the track is being played so it can update the slider accordingly on its own. Also please $ qdbus org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.spotify /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player.Position Check if that changes as the track advances, and finally $ qdbus org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.spotify /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player.CanSeek Whether we can actually seek at all
Spotify flatpak org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player.Rate = 1 org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player.Position = 0 (always) org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player.CanSeek = false I also checked DeaDBeeF org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player.Rate = 1 org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player.Position = long int that changes org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player.CanSeek = true So it looks like spotify must be fixed, right?
Yes, looks like a Spotify bug. Please file a bug report with them, closing this bug now. Thanks a lot for your patience and help!