For an always up-to-date list of support media players visit:
https://nimigames68.github.io/Music-Presence-Players
This site was created by the community member @NimiGames68.
If your media player is not detected, visit the troubleshooting page.
Some media players require a plugin or helper program. Please refer to the list below for your media player.
Since a past update Qobuz has stopped reporting what it's playing to Windows.
Possible workarounds are:
- Downgrading your Qobuz version, see this GitHub issue comment: #244 (comment)
- Modifying your Qobuz installation (might violate ToS): https://github.com/TubaApollo/qobuz-smtc
If you are on Linux, you can use the Qobuz website in a Firefox-based browser or the install QBZ Qobuz desktop client: https://github.com/vicrodh/qbz. Music played with either option will be detected by Music Presence
MusicBee works well with this plugin: https://github.com/HenryPDT/mb_MediaControl
The installation of such a plugin is required because otherwise MusicBee does not report what it is playing to Windows. Once you have installed and enabled it, Music Presence should detect Music Bee.
While foobar2000 reports basic information out of the box, this plugin will add the album name and a progress bar to your status: https://github.com/ungive/foo_mediacontrol
This is a fork of an old plugin which I have adapted to report missing song information.
AIMP requires this plugin to work: https://www.aimp.ru/forum/index.php?topic=63341
Unfortunately this plugin does not report accurate playback information, but everything else seems to work just fine.
VLC requires this plugin to work: https://github.com/spmn/vlc-win10smtc
At the moment this plugin does not report any cover images, nor an accurate playback position.
On Windows you will need to run this helper program for iTunes to report currently playing media to Windows: https://github.com/thewizrd/iTunes-SMTC. After that it should be detected and you should see it in your status.
iTunes on Mac is not supported as all versions for iTunes on Mac are too old.
For classic Winamp you might need this plugin, for the player to report the currently playing media to Windows:
https://github.com/NanMetal/gen_smtc
On Windows, mpv must either be run with --media-controls=yes
or by setting media-controls=yes in your mpv.conf file.
Otherwise mpv does not report currently playing media to Windows.
On Mac, you must install and run mpv using an app bundle
(file ending with .app),
otherwise it cannot be detected at this time.
Installing it with brew only installs a command line tool.
If you need Music Presence to work with the command line tool only
and you don't want to install an app bundle,
please open an issue.
If cover images are not showing or the above setting is not available, try updating mpv or installing a development version of mpv.
Some media players do not report metadata properly. Note that these are issues with the media players themselves, not with Music Presence. Affected players are sometimes reporting incorrect song metadata or playback information, we unfortunately can't do much about that.
Known cases:
- Windows Media Player (Windows 10) stops working randomly and does not report album covers. If you are looking for suitable alternative that works with Music Presence, have a look at ScreenBox
- Amazon Music consistently reports bad metadata and never reports the album cover. The only solution is to switch streaming services
- foobar2000: Out of the box, foobar2000 does not report the album and the track duration, so you won't see a progress bar in your status. You need to install the foo_mediacontrol plugin for this
This list is a non-exhaustive.