Forward Spotify Album Picture from Chromecast Speaker to Home Assistant Add-on even when Playback wasn't started in Music Assistant

[jamstruth]

I'm using Music Assistant alongside my Chromecast speakers. Its great but I don't always use Music Assistant to start playback on my devices, sometimes I use the Spotify App to start playback out of convenience.

In Home Assistant the Music-Assistant items correctly show playing and basic playback controls for the device but it doesn't show the album picture

If Music Assistant started playback then full controls are shown and the picture. I understand this may be a limitation of what can be achieved from information from Chromecast but it would be nice to maintain the picture for aesthetics. The UI shows the picture fine

[OzGav]

Duplicate https://github.com/orgs/music-assistant/discussions/3208