Brew could be an easier way for users to upgrade. Need to research it; have never made a brew package before, so if someone stumbles upon this and would like to help, that'd be great! 😄

Clicking pause/next-song and responding to state changes are very slow on macOS Mojave 😭

General clean-up and improve code, like Browserosaurus.

Thanks for developing this great utility!

One thing I've noticed is that when I open SpotSpot, the window size is tiny -- where the text is not really legible. I was wondering if there was a way to allow setting a default window size and/or remembering the window size if it gets resized the next time SpotSpot is opened.

Hey there Will!

Long time no speak. I hope all is well.

I was wondering if you might have an idea why I am seeing the following error when I try to run yarn make or yarn package?

✔ Checking your system
✔ Resolving Forge Config
We need to package your application before we can make it
✔ Preparing to Package Application for arch: x64
⠸ Compiling ApplicationFailed to compile file: /var/folders/7t/2f8l2q9n289gp4hwwbb8622m0000gn/T/electron-packager/darwin-x64/SpotSpot-darwin-x64/Electron.app/Contents/Resources/app/src/types/global.d.ts
Debug Failure. False expression: Output generation failed
⠼ Compiling ApplicationFailed to compile file: /var/folders/7t/2f8l2q9n289gp4hwwbb8622m0000gn/T/electron-packager/darwin-x64/SpotSpot-darwin-x64/Electron.app/Contents/Resources/app/src/types/spotify-node-applescript.d.ts
Debug Failure. False expression: Output generation failed

Favicon uses old round logo, update with new squircle logo.

Oh man, you don't know how many times I went to Spotify's preferences looking for that feature and never found it, but here it is, thank you...

Currently displays previous track artwork whilst an ad is playing on the free tier, meaning it can be unclear that you're now listening to an ad rather than part of the current track. Especially during particularly experimental music or when used in conjunction with certain other advertising-focussed plugins 🚫😏

Some visual feedback that an ad is playing would solve this, even just a text overlay "advertisement" rather than specific information about the ad itself.

v4 has a couple of new features, most notably is where the Window opens. Therefore, a new video for the website would be good.

Maybe show different sizes and states. Or make a gif to show the various animations: this could all be rolled into the logo.

As of now, the window stays on the same desktop it was created on. It would be good if it moved to the active desktop on swiping left or right to a new desktop

I noticed that the controls and song title only stay visible for a few seconds and SpotSpot reverts back to the album art.

I'd like to be able to mouseover SpotSpot display to show the song/artist info and controls, but also to click something in order to keep the display at this view (i.e., always show song/artist info and controls) rather than switching back to the album art. I thought at one point SpotSpot allowed this, but now it doesn't.

Perhaps when switching to the song/artist info and controls view you can have the album art showing in the background using tranparency? I don't know why it needs to be an either/or choice. It would be awesome of all items (song/artist info + controls + album art) could be displayed in the same view/window.

Thanks!

Ideas:

• different coloured text / controls.
• coloured border.
• replace controls with the word "paused" which disappears on hover to show controls again > probably my favourite at the moment.

Thoughts:

Cross-fading the album art will probably be fairly fiddly as we'll have to cache previous art etc.
Maybe just a quick fade-out old and quick fade-in? Again, how do we know when the track is finishing?
Maybe caching previous is the best option. This could be done easily with React: storing previous in state.

Need new events/class on body:

.nextTrack-enter

This remains for length of animation.

Quickly fade-in > slowly fade-out info.

One feature that I find quite useful is the possibility to switch to Spotify app when clicking on the green label of the artist in the SS window as shown in the gif here:

I achieved this by doing something like this on the trackArtist variable:

trackArtist.addEventListener('click', () => {

    function execute(command, callback) {
        exec(command, (error, stdout, stderr) => { 
            callback(stdout); 
        });
    };

    const cmd = `osascript -e 'tell application "Spotify" to activate'`;

    // call the function
    execute(cmd, (output) => {
    });
});

Just let you know that the About section of this repo has a dead link

Current link : https://spotspot.wstone.io/

New link : https://spotspot.wstone.uk/