Play Control

This is a tiny plasmoid that can control media players using the mpris DBus API (including some workarounds for broken media players). With this you can assign global hotkeys for media player actions (toggle play/pause, next song, previous song, stop, ...) and the shortcuts will control whichever media player is currently running. If there are several media players running at the same time you can choose the one you want to control from a list.

For VLC users:
You might have to enable the D-Bus interface before you can use this plasmoid. You can do so under Tools -> Preferences (Show settings: All) -> Interface -> Control interfaces -> D-Bus control interface

1.2.5
Double clicking player icons triggers play.

1.2.4
FIX: load config on startup, even if no configChanged signal is fired

1.2.3
Added command based player preset for "Steam Music"

1.2.2
FIX: Refresh command based players after settings change.

1.2.1
NEW: Web socket server supports SSL/TLS (wss://) so it can be used on https web pages.
NEW: Web socket server logfile
Fix icons sometimes not going away after a player exists (and resolved possible ref loop)

1.2.0
NEW: Web socket server to which web apps can connect. Currently only supported by http://greattuneplayer.jit.su/ (also written by me). A browser plugin that adds this feature to more sites might follow later.

1.1.0
NEW: Configure a non-dbus player controlled via shell commands.

1.0.5
handle dbus errors more gracefully
layout improvements

1.0.4
Support for version 2 of the mpris API.
Automatically change selection to the last used player. This means if no player is playing and a player starts playing (e.g. you clicked play in the said player) the selection changes to this player.

1.0.3
Seeking support
Fixed strange crash when refreshing player list

1.0.2
Better workaround for play/pause in VLC
Nice context menu