diff --git a/docs/clients/mpris.rst b/docs/clients/mpris.rst index daa23b6d..eed23970 100644 --- a/docs/clients/mpris.rst +++ b/docs/clients/mpris.rst @@ -4,62 +4,10 @@ MPRIS clients ************* -`MPRIS `_ is short for Media Player Remote Interfacing -Specification. It's a spec that describes a standard D-Bus interface for making -media players available to other applications on the same system. +`MPRIS `_ is short +for Media Player Remote Interfacing Specification. It is a spec that describes +a standard D-Bus interface for making media players available to other +applications on the same system. -The MPRIS frontend provided by the `Mopidy-MPRIS extension -`_ currently implements all required -parts of the MPRIS spec, plus the optional playlist interface. It does not -implement the optional tracklist interface. - - -.. _ubuntu-sound-menu: - -Ubuntu Sound Menu -================= - -The `Ubuntu Sound Menu `_ is the default -sound menu in Ubuntu since 10.10 or 11.04. By default, it only includes the -Rhytmbox music player, but many other players can integrate with the sound -menu, including the official Spotify player and Mopidy. - -.. image:: ubuntu-sound-menu.png - :height: 480 - :width: 955 - -If you install Mopidy from apt.mopidy.com, the sound menu should work out of -the box. If you install Mopidy in any other way, you need to make sure that the -file located at ``extra/desktop/mopidy.desktop`` in the Mopidy git repo is -installed as ``/usr/share/applications/mopidy.desktop``, and that the -properties ``TryExec`` and ``Exec`` in the file points to an existing -executable file, preferably your Mopidy executable. If this isn't in place, the -sound menu will not detect that Mopidy is running. - -Next, Mopidy's MPRIS frontend must be running for the sound menu to be able to -control Mopidy. The frontend is enabled by default, so as long as you have all -its dependencies available, you should be good to go. Keep an eye out for -warnings or errors from the MPRIS frontend when you start Mopidy, since it may -fail because of missing dependencies or because Mopidy is started outside of X; -the frontend won't work if ``$DISPLAY`` isn't set when Mopidy is started. - -Under normal use, if Mopidy isn't running and you open the menu and click on -"Mopidy Music Server", a terminal window will open and automatically start -Mopidy. If Mopidy is already running, you'll see that Mopidy is marked with an -arrow to the left of its name, like in the screen shot above, and the player -controls will be visible. Mopidy doesn't support the MPRIS spec's optional -tracklist interface yet, so you'll not be able to select what track to play -from the sound menu. You can use the sound menu to check what you're currently -playing, pause, resume, and skip to the next and previous track. - -In summary, Mopidy's sound menu integration is currently not a full featured -client, but it's a convenient addition to an MPD client since it's always -easily available on Unity's menu bar. - - -Rygel -===== - -Rygel is an application that will translate between Mopidy's MPRIS interface -and UPnP, and thus make Mopidy controllable from devices compatible with UPnP -and/or DLNA. To read more about this, see :ref:`upnp-clients`. +See the `Mopidy-MPRIS documentation `_ +for a survey of some MPRIS clients. diff --git a/docs/clients/ubuntu-sound-menu.png b/docs/clients/ubuntu-sound-menu.png deleted file mode 100644 index 9362f6f4..00000000 Binary files a/docs/clients/ubuntu-sound-menu.png and /dev/null differ