Show artwork from different media player?

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Hi,

I have a projector, and I use a Chromecast Ultra for video playback/streaming. However I use a pair of Kef smart Speakers for all Audio (audio from Chromecast Ultra, or streaming internet radio or Spotify or LMS flac streaming). So I can for example cast tv streams, where audio goes to speakers and picture to projector. All th7s works, except artwork…

Is there a way to “select” artwork from one mediaplayer (say Chromecast Ultra) when watching projector, and in other cases where it is audio only, “select” audio artwork from speakers? And I might add that I fo use mini media player… I just need to change which mediaplayer artwork to show…

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For anyone with the same kind of question: Universal Media Player, and just keep the order of the media players in the right order and it will most likely work out. In my case, with a pair of Kef LSX2 active speakers with the KEF integration which creates a few different sorts of media players (each one is a version for each protocol so to speak: DLNA, Chromecast and so on). So in my configuration.yaml file, it is only:

# Universal Media Player - test
  - platform: universal
    name: Media_Player_One
    children:
    - media_player.projektorn
    - media_player.vardagsrum_3
    - media_player.vardagsrum
    - media_player.my_kef_lsx_ii_speakers

Some explanation: the first media player is a Chromecast Ultra connected to my projector with HDMI (wireless) and optical (out from the box that handels the wireless HDMI) to speakers. The 2nd one (_3) is a LMS (Lyrion Media Server) media player that handles my 3200 CDs and Internet Radio Streaming (with meta data - meta data is somehow lost in the Radio Browser which is part of HA - this is a work around until someone manages the meta data connection between the stream and Chromecast, which works if I cast a internet radio station to the speakers - but not when I “cast” thru HA). The 3rd one is the built in Chromecast device in my speakers - and the last one is to handle everything that is not handled by the above three. It is after all very simple, and just works.

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