Jason Gray

> Will version 1.3.1 be made available on https://launchpad.net/~pithos/+archive/ubuntu/ppa? Eventually. @hotice(Andrew from http://www.webupd8.org) has agreed to maintain the PPA but he hasn't been added to https://launchpad.net/~pithos yet @kevinmehall needs to...

@orschiro If they updated their docs for Gtk3(Mate was ported to Gtk3 not long ago, I believe?) https://wiki.mate-desktop.org/docs:devel:mate-panel it would make writing a mpris applet much easier... With the proper...

On Linux it can be accomplished over DBus.

I would think the builtin [powerMonitor](https://electronjs.org/docs/api/power-monitor) electron API would be what you'd want to use primarily although for Linux as powerMonitor does not appear to support screen lock events you'd...

I couldn't help but notice that you're only using Spotifyd with the alsa backend. IMHO you'd be much better off just using `librespot`. As mentioned Spotifyd is pretty out of...

> Again, thank you. I wish I saw librespot much earlier. Just started to read through it and will definitely use it. It should more or less be a drop-in...

The OCD in me sees this PR open every time I go to the librespot repo and wonders if it will ever be merged? It seems to have stalled out...

The spec says that apps that allow multiple instances should follow [this convention](https://specifications.freedesktop.org/mpris-spec/latest/#Bus-Name-Policy). So if the name is "spotifyd" the bus name should be: `org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.spotifyd.instance{deviceName}` Where `deviceName` is the sanitized...

Really the easiest way is just to follow the spec and make the bus name `org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.spotifyd.instance{pid}` all of the time and not even use the `DeviceName` at all.

> I don't know in which situations people would be using it. Might as well be that the pid version is just sufficient for those who need it. Probably something...