Media Player interface doesn't distinguish between local and remote players

[vixalien]

Current Behavior

When I pair & connect Valent to my Android device running KDE Connect on my phone, I can view players exposed by Valent through the KDE Connect protocol.

The issue is that when I open Valent on my PC, it also sees players from the phone.

Let me explain this in more detail by giving an example,

on my phone (KDE Connect)

I have two apps playing music:

• YouTube Music
• Apple Music

on my PC (Valent)

I have one app playing music:

• Muzika

Observation

On my phone, I will see the two players (YouTube Music & Apple music) + the one exposed by Valent (Muzika)

If I go on my PC, Valent will see three players from the Android phone, i.e. YouTube Music, Apple Music & Muzika. Note that it sees Muzika as a player from the phone, even though it's a player from itself.

Expected Behavior

I woud expect only the sources from the app to be shown (not other sources exposed by KDE Connect on the phone)

Desktop

GNOME Shell

Other Desktop

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Operating System

Alpine

Installed from

Nightly Flatpak

Version

1.0.0.alpha

Devices

KDE Connect (Android)

Plugins

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Logs

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Screenshots

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[andyholmes]

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?

[vixalien]

When I click on the player from the GNOME panel, I'm taken to a screen which shows players exposed by Valent.

It shows: Google, YouTube Music and Muzika.

The Muzika source is actually exposed by KDE Connect on the mobile phone.

[andyholmes]

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.