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mpris speaking programs

MPRIS is a standard for communication between media players and programs that interact with them. This page is a list of all programs I could find that are MPRIS-compatible in some way.

media players

• Amarok
• Audacious
• VLC (must launch with vlc --control dbus)
• BMPx
• QMMP
• XMMS2 via xmms2-mpris-bridge
• MPD via mpDris
• Dragon Player
• Corn (written by me)

utility/control apps

• mprismote controls an MPRIS-compatible player from across a network.
• An MPRIS Ruby module.
• Lyricod, an onscreen lyric display program.
• mprisshell
• Music Applet
• mpris-remote (written by me)

chat clients

• There's a "now playing" plugin for Pidgin which is in Debian, Ubuntu, and Gentoo at least.
• There's unofficial "now playing" code for the Psi IM client.
• The KMess IM client has an outstanding bug requesting MPRIS support (they already support other D-BUS stuff so it looks like a small task).
• The Gajim Jabber client supports a "now playing" feature through MPRIS.
• KVIrc IRC client.