Hello Marius,

Marius Orcsik:
> I am developing a small user daemon[1] that listens for MPRIS signals and
> uses the information to submit songs to last.fm/libre.fm and
> listenbrainz.org

Great, keep up the good work!

> The later of these services requires data from some of the MusicBrainz
> IDv2 tags in order to form a complete submission.
> 
> However this information can almost never be found in the MPRIS
> metadata, as there is just one media player - that I know of - that
> extended their implementation to contain them. This player is
> Rhythmbox.
> 
> I would be interested if there is any interest in adding the
> MusicBrainz tags to the MPRIS spec. These tags are already present in
> the Xesam ontology[2].

Yes, definitely.

Please add them to the metadata guidelines on the freedesktop wiki page:
https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/mpris-spec/metadata/

You will need a freedesktop.org account for that.

cheers,

-- 
🦄 mirsal


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