1767412 - MediaSession incorrectly maps album

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: Audio/Video, defect)

Description

[twihno]

Attachment: Windows Media Overlay

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:99.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/99.0

Steps to reproduce:

OS: Windows 11 build 22000.613

Open any website which uses a MediaSession including information for the album, e.g. spotify web (not youtube; the album information on youtube is an empty string)

Spotify MediaSession information:

MediaMetadata { title: "Symmetry", artist: "Klangkarussell", album: "Netzwerk", artwork: (3) […] }
​
album: "Netzwerk"
​
artist: "Klangkarussell"
​
artwork: Array(3) [ {…}, {…}, {…} ]
​
title: "Symmetry"
​
<prototype>: MediaMetadataPrototype { title: Getter & Setter, artist: Getter & Setter, album: Getter & Setter, … }

Firefox dev 100.0b9 shows the same behavior.

Actual results:

The Windows media overlay displays the album title instead of the artist (see screenshot)

Expected results:

The overlay should show the artist

Comment 1

[twihno]

Attachment: Windows Media Overlay - Edge

It works perfectly fine in Edge 101.0.1210.32
Media Session metadata:

MediaMetadata {title: 'Symmetry', artist: 'Klangkarussell', album: 'Netzwerk', artwork: Array(3)}
album: "Netzwerk"
artist: "Klangkarussell"
artwork: (3) [{…}, {…}, {…}]
title: "Symmetry"
[[Prototype]]: MediaMetadata

Comment 2

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Core::Audio/Video' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 3

[Paul Adenot (:padenot)]

Attachment: Bug 1767412 - Don't set the AlbumArtist property on IMusicDisplayProperties. r?chunmin

The Album Artist field when talking about musical metadata is the
artist under which a particular release is classified under. Artist is
the people that are on a specific track, including thing like featurings, etc.

Here we only want to set Artist (the most generic item). Album Artist
overrides artist, and has nothing to do with the album name.

Windows doesn't have an API or a location in the UI to display the album
name.

Comment 4

[Paul Adenot (:padenot)]

Attachment: old, incorrect mapping, Sintel is the album name

Screenshot of old and new behaviour on https://googlechrome.github.io/samples/media-session/audio.html.

Comment 5

[Paul Adenot (:padenot)]

Attachment: new, correct mapping. Jan Morgenstern is the artist

Comment 6

[Alastor Wu [:alwu]]

FYI, some investigation I had before.

Comment 8

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/e78b9797781b
Don't set the AlbumArtist property on IMusicDisplayProperties. r=chunmin

Comment 9

[Cosmin Sabou [:CosminS]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/e78b9797781b

Comment 10

[Ardelean Oana, Desktop Test Engineering [:oardelean]]

I managed to reproduce this issue on Firefox 99.0 on Windows 11 using the Spotify webplayer. Verified as fixed on Firefox 102.0b5(20220607212916) and Nightly 103.0a1(20220608214824).