Creating a MPRIS service (server) in Go

The article discusses creating a MPRIS service(Media Player Remote Interfacing Specification) in Go for broadcasting metadata to the system, specifically for a webradio player.

MPRIS is a D-Bus interface used for communication between applications on Linux, similar to APIs for web applications. The article uses the Godbus library to create a D-Bus client that exposes a D-Bus service for MPRIS. The implementation involves connecting to the session bus, exporting properties on the bus, and implementing and exporting functions on the bus.

The article provides code snippets and shortcuts for implementing the mandatory properties of the MPRIS interface. The article concludes by mentioning that further implementation details can be found in the source code of mpd-mpris or fip-player.