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Pigpog / vlc-discord-rpc

Discord rich presence for VLC media player.
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VLC is classified as a game instead of music #58

Closed Nixinova closed 3 years ago

Nixinova commented 3 years ago

This program leads to VLC being classified as a game in Discord, saying "Playing X", instead of being labelled "Listening to X" like e.g. Spotify. Is it possible for this classification to be changed or can it only classify as "Listening to" when it's an official connection?

Comparison: image - "Listening To" (good) image - "Playing A Game" (bad)

Pigpog commented 3 years ago

It is not possible to specify "Listening To" as a rich presence. Spotify and Discord have a special agreement that allows their rich presence to be a lot more advanced (the album art is an external asset, they get a timeline, Listening To, and an additional line of text).

I tried years ago to get it to be Listening To, and it turns out that if you use a self-bot you can get Listening To and even the unseen "Watching" status messages, but only for basic presences (like "Listening to VLC" with no other info), not rich presences.

So unless something has changed since then, it's not an option for anyone at the moment.

Nixinova commented 3 years ago

Alright, thanks for the quick response.