Universal media player can not browse media

The problem

When I select a universal media player based destination in the media browser, I get an error that this player doesn’t support browsing. When I directly select the configured chromecast child player, it works.

What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue?

Core-2022.2.2

What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core?

No response

What type of installation are you running?

Home Assistant OS

Integration causing the issue

Universal media player

Link to integration documentation on our website

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/universal/

Diagnostics information

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Example YAML snippet

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Anything in the logs that might be useful for us?

Logger: homeassistant.components.media_player
Source: components/media_player/__init__.py:1181 
Integration: Media player (documentation, issues) 
First occurred: 15:52:47 (3 occurrences) 
Last logged: 15:53:18

media_player.woonkamer allows media browsing but its integration (universal) does not

Additional information

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[jhhbe]

Ah, seems there is an open issue for my problem: I’ve created a universal mediaplayer in order to have on/off action trigger sending IR signal to the physical player. In my case the single underlying child squeezelite does support media browsing fine. However when I want to browse media in the ‘parent’ universal player then it says it does not support media browsing.

Find it strange the issue does not attract more attention as universal media player is filling a need.

[gambalaya]

Adding to the original issue, this has become a showstopper problem for my particular use case of universal media player due to this additional change: “Starting with Home Assistant 2022.5, the TTS say service will set the media content ID to be a media source URI. These need to be resolved inside the media player using the media source integration.” I was using universal media player to pass through media_content_id to the the Android TV media player (by running an adb command “am start -a android.intent.action.VIEW -d {{ media_content_id }} -t audio/mp3” from the play_media command). This no longer works for TTS say service since the media source is no longer resolved to the actual mp3 url. This may or may not be a problem for a chromecast child media player, but wouldn’t this now be a problem for any child media player that doesn’t have a ‘native’ play_media service?