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The media player STANDBY state is deprecated

Core and integrations

The media player state MediaPlayerState.STANDBY has been deprecated as decided in home-assistant/architecture#799 and will be removed in Home Assistant Core 2026.8. Integrations should use MediaPlayerState.IDLE or MediaPlayerState.OFF instead.

For more details, see the media player developer documentation.