No D-Bus interface with Spotify

eyalch commented 6 years ago

I went over some of the issues here and noticed that there's a problem with Spotify itself providing the D-Bus interface. Is this problem still relevant?

Output of:

$ dbus-send --session --dest=org.freedesktop.DBus --type=method_call --print-reply /org/freedesktop/DBus org.freedesktop.DBus.ListNames
method return time=1515162666.148629 sender=org.freedesktop.DBus -> destination=:1.3 serial=3 reply_serial=2
   array [
      string "org.freedesktop.DBus"
      string ":1.3"
      string "org.gnome.Terminal"
      string ":1.1"
   ]

My original problem is with Spotify but I decided to try other media players with support for MPRIS D-Bus, so I tried Clementine. Still no players with playerctl -l.

I'm happy to provide any other needed outputs.

acrisci commented 6 years ago

Unfortunately, the dbus interface of spotify is not well maintained. It comes and goes with the versions.

I can get clementine to give me the dbus interface with the default install.

You seem to be a little light on dbus names, but that's the only thing that looks weird about your output. I'm not really sure what is going on. Does it work with vlc?

eyalch commented 6 years ago

Since my luck isn't at it's best at the moment, what am I exactly supposed to do?

Install VLC (pacman -S vlc for me)
Open VLC
Run playerctl -l

Is that it?

acrisci commented 6 years ago

Yeah that should work.

eyalch commented 6 years ago

Didn't work.

Navgeet commented 4 years ago

This might help: https://www.reddit.com/r/artixlinux/comments/hr2qgj/spotify_not_connecting_to_dbusmpris/g07n3jg?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x

acrisci commented 4 years ago

See the troubleshooting section of the readme for instructions how to fix this.

altdesktop / playerctl

No D-Bus interface with Spotify #55