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