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[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew, thanks for reporting the bug. But while annoying, this is a
*relatively* minor issue (because relatively few people will install
more than a couple of music players), and there are many fewer designers
and bug fixers than reporters. If you are, or anyone you know is,
interested in joining the ranks of bug fixers,
<https://code.launchpad.net/indicator-sound> and
<http://developer.ubuntu.com/packaging/html/fixing-a-bug.html> would be
good places to start.

Before 13.10, the sound menu showed playback controls for a compliant
app if it was the default player *or* if it was running. This was bad
because it required you to care about whether an app was running.

In 13.10, the menu shows playback controls for any compliant app,
regardless of whether it is default or running. This has turned out to
be excessive.

What we could do is show playback controls for an app if it is playing
right now, or if it is one of the N most recently playing apps. On the
PC, N might be 2 or 3.

That would also harmonize the behavior with the sound menu on Touch:
there, N would be 1. And it would be a slight improvement on the current
design: if you only ever used a non-default player, the menu wouldn't
keep reverting to showing controls for the default player when your
usual player exited.

** Changed in: indicator-sound
       Status: Triaged => In Progress

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Title:
  All registered music players show widgets

Status in Sound Menu:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  Using a current 13.10. Without using any media players recently
  most/all that I have installed are showing control widgets in the
  sound menu.

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