Current song info

[jvataja]

The client can't retrieve the information of song playing currently, says 'no track playing'. On Alfred 4.0.9 [1144], MacOS 10.14.6.

[citelao]

What happens in the AppleScript "Script Editor" app when you run this?

tell application "Spotify"
	name of current track
end tell

It should output the current song at the bottom.

[jvataja]

It almost always returns an empty string. However, sometimes it's working how it should and I can't figure out why. The script returned correct info before Alfred/Spotify-for-Alfred. Is there any fallback to use Spotify API to get song info?

[citelao]

I haven't implemented anything that calls out to the Spotify API, but I think it might be possible. You may need a Premium account to do it. I worry that API calls will be too slow for general use, though.

If you restart your computer and don't use Spotifious (but open the Spotify app), do you reliably get a result?

[fusion2004]

I'm seeing the same thing as well, and similarly running that script in the script editor is returning a blank string.

[citelao]

What version of Spotify are you running? (Spotify> About Spotify).

I'm running 1.1.26.501.gbe11e53b, and the script works correctly for me with no issues.

[citelao]

Updating to 1.1.33.569.gced9e0f5 and the script fails.

However, this provides output:

tell application "Spotify"
	id of current track
end tell

Is this the same for you? Looks like Spotify doesn't give out the name anymore (ugh).

[citelao]

Seems to be working on newer versions of Spotify, like 1.1.48.625.g1c87c7f7-a.