[Spotify] dbus media keys control broken [solved]

Hi there,
According to the Wiki page, the following command can be issued to control Spotify via Dbus:
$ dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.spotify /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player.PlayPause
This used to work perfectly. However, since a couple of days, it fails with the following error of not finding the respective service file:
Error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.spotify was not provided by any .service files
Can someone confirm this?
Thanks ahead!
Last edited by orschiro (2014-06-16 12:52:49)

Very strange. I just had to reboot to make the command working again and finding the service file.
Maybe a temporary conflict with a recent systemd update?
I don't know...

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