Album art not displayed in GNOME 3.34 in some distributions

[JasonLG1979]

Distro Name & Version

Fedora 31 nightly and Arch

GNOME Shell Version

3.34

Other Installed Extensions

None

Expected Behavior

Cover art showing up in this extension and the default MPRIS controls when it is available.

Current Behavior

Non-local album art is not shown in the extension nor the default MPRIS controls.

Detailed Description

As mentioned in #13 (comment) and https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/62860

Ubuntu 19.10 daily appears to be unaffected.

Below are screenshots of both this extension and the default MPRIS controls from the latest Fedora 31 nightly as of the date of the creation of this issue.

Pithos provides local images for cover art where as Spotify does not.

[reanimus]

FYI, this bug is still present and is actually a bug with gnome-shell itself -- see https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/2284 for discussion

[Pobega]

Is that what is leading to this log?

Sep 11 07:27:44 icebox gnome-shell[52332]: JS ERROR: Extension [email protected]: Gio.IOErrorEnum: Operation not supported
                                           getCover/<@/var/home/pobega/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]/widgets.js:70:50

[JasonLG1979]

@Pobega Looks like it.

[JasonLG1979]

The solution really is for players to cache remote covers locally. I mean really the player's more than likely going to display the cover so it's going to need to download it it anyway. It may as well be cached locally to avoid re-downloading later for it's own use or anything else that may need it like MPRIS. We do this in Pithos and it works great.