Don't share phone videos and screen recordings as now-playing

General-purpose players (VLC, MX Player, Photos, galleries) report a local
file's name as the title. Skip sessions whose title looks like a video file
or camera/recorder name, or that come from such a player without a real
artist tag.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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2026-10-26 11:29:54 -04:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 5.5
parent 6537c34a38
commit 0a28f05d53
3 changed files with 52 additions and 2 deletions
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@@ -10,3 +10,5 @@ next-env.d.ts
# Production secrets and database backups
deploy/production.env
backups/
.aider*
deploy/gitea-runner/data/
@@ -121,9 +121,11 @@ class MediaListenerService : NotificationListenerService() {
private fun snapshot(controller: MediaController): Playback? {
val metadata = controller.metadata
val title = metadata?.text(MediaMetadata.METADATA_KEY_TITLE) ?: metadata?.text(MediaMetadata.METADATA_KEY_DISPLAY_TITLE)
val artist = metadata?.text(MediaMetadata.METADATA_KEY_ARTIST)
val realArtist = metadata?.text(MediaMetadata.METADATA_KEY_ARTIST)
?: metadata?.text(MediaMetadata.METADATA_KEY_ALBUM_ARTIST)
?: metadata?.text(MediaMetadata.METADATA_KEY_DISPLAY_SUBTITLE)
val artist = realArtist ?: metadata?.text(MediaMetadata.METADATA_KEY_DISPLAY_SUBTITLE)
// A phone video or other non-song: treat the session as if it weren't there.
if (NonMusicFilter.isNonMusic(controller.packageName, title, realArtist)) return null
val playbackState = controller.playbackState
val state = when (playbackState?.state) {
PlaybackState.STATE_PLAYING, PlaybackState.STATE_BUFFERING,
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
package tech.chrisedwards.musicshare.nowplaying
/**
* Keeps things that aren't songs (phone videos, screen recordings) out of what we share.
* General-purpose players report a local file's name as its title, so a video played
* in VLC would otherwise show up as "VID_20261025_181502.mp4".
*/
internal object NonMusicFilter {
/** Players that also open videos and arbitrary files: only share from them when there's a real artist. */
private val GENERAL_PLAYERS = setOf(
"org.videolan.vlc",
"org.videolan.vlc.debug",
"com.mxtech.videoplayer.ad",
"com.mxtech.videoplayer.pro",
"is.xyz.mpv",
"com.brouken.player", // Just Player
"com.google.android.apps.photos",
"com.sec.android.gallery3d",
"com.android.gallery3d",
"com.miui.gallery",
"com.google.android.apps.nbu.files",
"com.sec.android.app.myfiles",
)
private val FILE_NAME = Regex(
""".*\.(mp4|m4v|mkv|mov|webm|avi|3gp|3g2|wmv|flv|ts|mts|m2ts|mpg|mpeg)$""",
RegexOption.IGNORE_CASE,
)
/** Camera, screen-recorder and messaging-app naming schemes. */
private val RECORDING_NAME = Regex(
"""^(VID|PXL|IMG|MVIMG|MOV|DSC|GOPR|GX\d{2}|Screen[_ ]?Recording|Screenrecorder|Record|signal|WhatsApp Video)[-_ ]?\d.*""",
RegexOption.IGNORE_CASE,
)
/**
* [realArtist] is the artist/album-artist tag only, not the display-subtitle fallback,
* which players fill with folder names and the like.
*/
fun isNonMusic(packageName: String, title: String?, realArtist: String?): Boolean {
val name = title?.trim().orEmpty()
if (name.isEmpty()) return false
if (FILE_NAME.matches(name) || RECORDING_NAME.matches(name)) return true
return packageName in GENERAL_PLAYERS && realArtist.isNullOrBlank()
}
}