Awesome application.

I would appreciate for the cursor to still be visible when the application is open. In its current state it disappears when you hover over the window which can be kinda confusing.
Also, it would be cool if you could skip and pause songs from the within the Spotispy application itself.

"Due to limitations in the Spotify API, the max album art size is 600x600."

So, why would this limit the size on screen? There is the faded out version at the back, but I'd love to have it bigger if possible. Like 80% of the height. On double click of the pic or something like it.

When SpotiSpy is started and Spotify runs in the background it finds it and tries to connect to it. It finds the artist and the song name but can't find the album art.

This is the error message I get when using spotispy.exe /K:

enumerated 3 displays.
waiting for spotify...
4370
{ version: 9,
client_version: '1.0.58.573.g57c9cd87',
running: true }
4370
ready to grab album art.
found new song title.
song title: Something Just Like This
[TypeError: Cannot read property '0' of undefined]

Hey,
for me the App is saying "Waiting for Spotify..." the wohle time :/

Can you PLEASE make a working version for OS X! 0.0.8 doesn't work and there isn't an OS X app on 0.0.9

Set up a keyboard shortcut like Ctrl+T or something to toggle the text display for the current track's name and album on and off.

Album covers stopped showing up
Had to sign up for a spotify dev account for web API and send token in header with
config.headers['Authorization'] = 'Bearer *******';
in getJson function.

When i first started using Spotispy it was working fine and then after a few weeks of no use I started it up again and it was stuck on "Connecting to Spotify". If there are any solution to this I would appreciate it a lot

When you listen to an album, I assume because the album art never changes, the song title never changes

Spotify web server port is 4371 instead of 4370 on Linux (fresh install of Lubuntu 16.04) . Not sure whether it happens only on my machine or if it is global. Anyway problem solved by hard coding the right port in main.js line 97 let spotifyPort = 4371;

[kj@localhost spotispy]$ npm start

[email protected] start /home/kj/bin/spotispy
electron lib/main.js

enumerated 1 displays.
waiting for spotify...
4370
{ [Error: connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:4370]
code: 'ECONNREFUSED',
errno: 'ECONNREFUSED',
syscall: 'connect',
address: '127.0.0.1',
port: 4370 }
{ [Error: socket hang up] code: 'ECONNRESET' }
connection failed; trying new port...
waiting for spotify...
4371
{ version: 9,
client_version: '1.0.49.125.g72ee7853',
running: true }
4371
waiting for authentication...
waiting for authentication...
ready to grab album art.
[TypeError: Cannot read property 'track_resource' of undefined]
{ error: { type: '4102', message: 'Invalid OAuth token' },
version: 9,
client_version: '1.0.49.125.g72ee7853',
running: true }

i ran the spotispy.exe /K and saw that it looks at the 4370 range, but my client uses 4070 as far as i can see.
Anyways, i've let it run for a good while and it never connected.

Btw,
The wallpaper-engine theme with spotispy is throwing mad errors also.

License File and License in Package.json is MIT and GPL.
If this project dual license, or just inconsistent?

At the moment the screen being picked up is the main screen and there seems to be no way to move spotispy to the other screen(s).

Would be nice to make it go to the other ones...

Win32 version

Hey,

I made a fork where I did a few things differently for my own usage, but also simplified the logic by using spotify's web api. This may be interesting to you (more failsafe in the future and the possibiliy for progress bars), you can find it here: https://github.com/l3d00m/spotispy

Even after the last update, it won't show the album

I can successfully run spotispy 0.0.9 from source code on a Mac, using npm (though I had to unblock http://open.spotify.com/ from my hosts file), and am trying to figure out how to cast the app to a chromecast, to display the album artwork on my Tv. My first though was to try and open the index file in a Chrome tab and then mirror it, but when I do that it simply says, "Waiting for Spotify..." and I am assuming this is because the javascript fails to run properly. Any one have any suggestions for a fix to getting spotispy open in chrome?

After Spotify updated to 1.0.37.150.gad02a02e the app no longer works, I think it's something with the webhelper, maybe just different ports but I'm not sure.

I'm running an old version of Spotify (0.9.15.27.g87efe634), and I would love an app like this one. However, when I run Spotispy, it just says "Waiting for Spotify..." (see screenshot).

I'm guessing it is because I run an old version of Spotify, or does it support older versions as well? Tried to run the exe before and after starting spotify, on my laptop and desktop pc, no change. Do you just boot it up and wait? Are there no settings or anything like that? Sorry if I'm missing something obvious here, I know nothing of code or coding.

Grateful for any kind of response.

The latest release is non-functional, where as the latest version of the source code works just fine.
A new release should probably be made. :)

Thank you for sharing this handy little tool with us. Your work is very much appreciated!!!

If I could wish for two features:

• bigger title/artist/album information font
• it would also be very nice if we could add our own custom backgrounds behind the cover art

See the screenshot from a kodi skin, that has both features implemented close to how I'd imagine them: screenshot

With the new Spotify update, Spotispy can't go any further than the "Waiting For Spotify..." screen.

Spotify changed again the port/security/way you retrieve the song metadata, and this affects other apps that used to use it like Musixmatch in Windows 10.

I suspect Musixmatch will roll an update someday, maybe it is helpful.

globalShortcut CommandOrControl+Shift+Left and CommandOrControl+Shift+Right may not be a good choice, given so many people usually use it to select text.

💙💙💙💙

I miss the ability to show song title and artist info under album art.