Port the mediaplayer mpris interface to mpris 2.2; fix #1912 #2552
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This PR updates the mediaplayer module's MPRIS interface from version 1 to version 2.2 (https://specifications.freedesktop.org/mpris-spec/latest/)
Version 1 of the specification is considered obsolete and broken; all media players already updated to the new spec years ago.
Two dead mediaplayers got removed (Mozilla Songbird and BMPx).
This PR has been tested working with VLC, Clementine and Audacity.
A flaw has been found in the position/length handling: the variable holding the milliseconds value is an int, so it will report broken values for long files; from my tests it breaks after around 15 minutes. The fix is not contained in this PR since it requires a data type change in all the other interfaces, too.