Category: multimedia

Multimedia keys for YouTube Music Desktop App

After installing YouTube Music Desktop App and enabling plugin Shortcuts it’s possible to use D-bus commands.

I had to identify the bus so ended up with https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/46309/39470

dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.DBus /org/freedesktop/DBus org.freedesktop.DBus.ListNames
      string "org.mozilla.thunderbird.ZGVmYXVsdA__"
      string "org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.brave.instance1661"
      string "org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.youtube-music"
      string "org.pulseaudio.Server"

Now I could test if it works

dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.youtube-music /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player.PlayPause

dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.youtube-music /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player.Next

dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.youtube-music /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player.Previous