mediaSession artwork not displaying

Dear martpie,

I hope you don’t take it wrong. This question is not about Museeks, but about a music player of my own, which I’m trying to build. Feel free to ignore this issue 😃

So here is the question, as I described in Stack Overflow: Inspired by your code, I’m trying to access the album cover with fs, as base64 and display it in mediaSession’s artwork. This is my code:

const cover = this.getCover(this.playback.album.coverPath);

// Setup media session metadata
let metadata = {
    title: this.playback.track.title,
    album: this.playback.album.title,
    artist: this.playback.album.artist,
    artwork: cover? [{ src: cover }] : null
};
navigator.mediaSession.metadata = new MediaMetadata(metadata);


function getCover(coverPath) {
    const data = fs.readFileSync(coverPath, { encoding: 'base64' });
    const format = path.extname(coverPath).substr(1);
    return `data:${format};base64,${data}`;
}

This is not working on Ubuntu, only on Windows. I know that you code is almost the same, and it works in my OS. Have you gone through the same problem? Have you found any solutions?

Thank you so much, m7kra

[m7kra]

My Ubuntu installation is nearly new (1 week), because I got messed up with the 22.04 update 😐 and reinstalled everything to have a clean machine. Actually, that’s a proof that the issue doesn’t depend on the DE: when I opened this issue, I was using Ubuntu 20.04. Today, that installation has been erased and I’m on Ubuntu 22.04. Furthermore, playing a video on Youtube doesn’t show an artwork, but in Windows it does. I believe that it’s not an issue with Museeks itself, but with the Chromium Electron uses.

[martpie]

mmmh that’s weird, mediaSession should cover mpris usecases (I tested on vanilla ubuntu and elementary), and I deliberatly moved away from mpris-service to avoid bundling native dependencies (it’s complicated to make all of this work).

I’ll have to try on fresh ubuntu VMs, but I suspect an issue with your DE, more than with Museeks. There’s actually an easy way to test that: open spotify or youtube music, and see if it displays on mpris. If it does not, then it’s a DE issue. If it does, then it’s an issue with Museeks.