Andy Holmes

Yes, that's intentional. Valent only exports on media player at a time when in a Flatpak, for two reasons: 1. That used to be the "free" permission you got from...

> Maybe at least exposing only the latest played source would be better. That should be current result, unless the "Google" player starts first and never stops: https://github.com/andyholmes/valent/blob/28e59d66ba3821a516a797763c152d03db3f9aa6/src/plugins/mpris/valent-mpris-adapter.c#L63-L85 I'm assuming...

I suppose the exporter could try to prioritize the most recent player to start playing. It occurred to me that's how the media keys in GNOME probably work. It's possible...

> But something that could possibly help is hiding players with a duration of 0. I don't know if that will affect like livestreams, but what I noticed is that...

Oops. Sorry, I guess the patch doesn't really close the issue 🙃

How can you tell it's seeing Muzika as a player from the phone? Wouldn't that mean you should have 4 players on your desktop?

Is the correct player now exported, since [0232b87](https://github.com/andyholmes/valent/commit/0232b87829a0cdcdddbf6941193fa2c3412dd1c0)? If so, I'm going to close this as expected behaviour, since there are clearly still broken players out there.

Ah, that's a list of all media players known to Valent, including local players. Probably we should clarify that in the user interface then.

Fair enough :) I'll close it up then for now, I might just drop the multi-plexer thing and let the bug reports for broken players flow in :)

> what do you mean? Right now (when in Flatpak), Valent has a little multi-plexer that swaps in the "most active" player. That's pretty much because there will be reports...