Ubuntu – How to integrate mpv media player into the Ubuntu sound menu

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I tried the following command to integrate mpv into the Ubuntu sound menu.

$ gsettings set com.canonical.indicator.sound interested-media-players "['lollypop', 'mpv']"

This adds an entry for mpv but it misses the playback controls.

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We can integrate any music player (or other application) into the sound indicator as shown here but this will only make it controllable if the player supports dbus (mpris) controls.

Sadly this is not the case for MPV.

There is an external plugin which claims to add mpris support. I haven't tried it myself but it may be worth a shot.

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