Show album art instead of player icon

[9p4]

Instead of showing the player icon, show the embedded album art instead of the default icon. Looks like we can use the Metadata property and get the album art uri and embed that.

[FichteFoll]

It's not possible to use arbitrary icons with the Rich Presence API. All icons must be uploaded for the registered app first and can then be referenced by name.

It may be possible for everyone to maintain a custom app and then have discordrp-mpris upload album art assets there, but I don't know how fast the images are updated (the website takes minutes to list newly added icons). Would also be quite a bit of work, although the feature is nice.

[jojo2357]

Discord has recently added support for URL's as a rich presence asset, although I am not sure how many libraries are supporting that right now.

I am the maintainer of MDRP, and I am in the process of using the ITunes api to get a url that refers to the art for a specific album, searchable by artist, album, and song. I unfortunately have to use an alpha build of the c# library, so this is probably not supported in python yet

[FichteFoll]

That sounds interesting. Can you point me to some documentation on this new feature or alternatively the code of this c# library? I fear it might be using a different IPC interface than what I am currently using since they did add another API after I wrote this.

Note that it's not a high priority for me at the moment.

[jojo2357]

https://discord.com/developers/docs/topics/gateway#activity-object-activity-assets

and

https://discord.com/developers/docs/topics/gateway#activity-object-activity-asset-image

[BobbyWibowo]

It appears to be possible to use remote URLs of any file hosts as-is into both large_image and small_image fields
It is the solution currently implemented in phineas05 / discord-rich-presence-plex

A bit more details over here TheQwertiest/foo_discord_rich#6 (comment)

[BobbyWibowo]

I ended up implementing this on my personal-use fork (BobbyWibowo@907949b ... BobbyWibowo@f88a7b5)

Mostly by "stealing" our existing Config class and some bits and pieces from phineas05/discord-rich-presence-plex
However I'm not going to make a PR because I don't trust my current Python experience for public usage

Linking them for references, and to hopefully kickstart FichteFoll early to implement it themselves, lmao

I also found it troublesome to make it auto-create an empty JSON cache file, so I did not
Users must create an empty valid JSON file named cache.json in their local discordrp-mpris config directory to even start using it

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YouTube videos via plasma-browser-integration (as-is due to using YouTube thumb url directly)

Strawberry Music Player (auto-upload local album cover to imgur)

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Also I just noticed the actual media players became unrecognizable due to no icons or texts, lmao, but I'm not gonna bother with that (I forgot player name is available via hover text on large image)

[SergSel2006]

Yeah? this addition seems to be good. There is a discord documentation available on this idea. The link from upper comment don't work. So, please, can you make it?
Also, there's metadata type which has base32 encoded image as I remember.

[SergSel2006]

I've just started making fork of this masterpiece, but with album arts. As I see, you can just pass http URLs and it will show the album art from metadata (I've just used ctrl+C ctrl+V and changed one condition with resulting activity for a bit). I'm now working on any other URLs because there's commonly rfc2397 URL, which discord (for some reason) can't use. Though, we can easily get image from there and use it.

[FichteFoll]

Since you seem to have made some investigations already, which application uses which scheme?

For data: URLs, much like file:, I believe we would need to upload the images somewhere so that discord can find/reference them via http, which isn't exactly a small overhead if we also want to make that configurable. Otherwise I would simply pick a reliable temporary fire-and-forget host like 0x0.st. This upload behavior would definitely need to be disabled by default, however.

[SergSel2006]

Getting image isn't a problem because urllib from python standard library does it. Only problem is to use it with discord. We need to send them to some host (user-defined?), get https: link and done. Seems easy

[SergSel2006]

I've just made a pull request #32 with solution to this issue