nahive / spotify-notify

Rich, native Spotify notifications 🎵

Spotify Notify

Inspired by Spotify Notifications written in Swift

Download latest release here

Install via Homebrew

brew tap nahive/spotify-notify
brew install --cask spotify-notify --no-quarantine

Features

• Notification sounds (toggle)
• Notification on play/pause (toggle)
• Customizable status bar icon (default, dark and none)
• Launch on login (toggle)
• Album artwork (toggle)
• Toggle disabling of notifications when Spotify is focused (toggle)
• Shortcuts for showing notification (customizable) ✨
• Show progress of a song in notification ✨
• Ability to skip song from notification ✨
• Options to control Spotify from menu bar ✨
• Customizable options in notification
• Add localizations

Notes

When running the app on macOS Mojave (10.14) or higher, the first time you attempt to control Spotify you will be presented with the following dialog box:

You must grant permission for the app to work. Choosing Don't Allow will make the app unable to retrieve any information about the currently playing track.

If you click Don't Allow by accident, you can reset the permissions dialogue using

$ tccutil reset AppleEvents

Additionally, it is now required to sign the app using a paid developer account. To do this, simply set the signing team and certificate in the General settings of the SpotifyNotify target:

Building

$ git clone https://github.com/nahive/spotify-notify.git
$ cd spotify-notify
$ open SpotifyNotify.xcodeproj

Contributing

If you found a bug, open an issue.

If you have a feature request, open an issue.

If you want to contribute, submit a pull request.

License

The source code is dedicated to the public domain. See the LICENCE.md file for more information.

The Spotify artwork and icon is owned by Spotify AB Inc.

spotify-notify's Issues

Notify keeps reopening Spotify

I added notify to the login items and i noticed that whenever i try to quit spotify, notify keeps reopening it. This happens as long as notify keeps running.

Automatically start and quit Notify when Spotify do so

Is it okay for the app to start when Spotify starts and quit automatically when Spotify quits?

Notifications are triggered when Spotify is focused

The notifications are visible also when Spotify is open and visible in a desktop and the desktop is on focus (I have pinned the "Hide notifications when Spotify is focused" option). I've got a Macbook Pro with MacOs 10.13.3 and Spotify 1.0.77.338.

Stack notifications in NotificationCenter

Hello, this is a lovely project.
I wonder if it would be possible to stack the Notifications in Notification Center (e.g. when you get a slack message)?
It would be nice to scroll through some of the stuff that I've listened to via the notification centre

App doesn't seem to work

I have no notification on MacOS Catalina

add stack notifications

No status bar icon and no notifications

Following #28 (comment). The application starts but it does not appear in the status bar and do not show any notifications.

Uninstalling any version and installing the latest version (0.4.3), does not solve the issue.

Stuck on "Status: Unknown" with no notifications - MacOS 13.4.1, Spotify

MacOS Version: 13.4.1
Spotify Version: Spotify for macOS (Apple Silicon) 1.2.19.941.gbf202593

I just installed Notify (not sure how to grab the version of it) and when I change songs in spotify, I get no notification, and the status on the tray icon just shows 'Status: Unknown'. Any way I can fix it (or get more info to help debug it)?

Doesn't launch on macOS Ventura 13.1

When I launch the app on my 14-inch 2021 MacBook Pro M1 Pro running macOS Ventura 13.1, nothing happens

update settings to make them more clear

#31 (comment)

Homebrew tap issue

I'm unable to install with Homebrew:

❯ brew tap nahive/homebrew-spotify-notify
==> Tapping nahive/spotify-notify
Cloning into '/usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/nahive/homebrew-spotify-notify'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 6, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (6/6), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (5/5), done.
remote: Total 6 (delta 0), reused 3 (delta 0), pack-reused 0
Receiving objects: 100% (6/6), done.
Tapped 1 formula (13 files, 5.8KB).

❯ brew install --cask spotify-notify
Warning: Cask 'spotify-notify' is unavailable: No Cask with this name exists.
==> Searching for similarly named casks...
==> Casks
spotify-now-playing

To install spotify-now-playing, run:
  brew install --cask spotify-now-playing

Please fix it.

Notification looks a bit wired

Is there any option provided that allows users to set the notification title back to "Spotify" instead of the name of the current song? Since the song name has already been displayed as the main content of the notification

Notifications not working

Not getting notifications. Permissions to control Spotify allowed. Getting this with 0.2.3 beta and 0.3.0 alpha. Keyboard shortcut does not work either.

16-inch 2021 Macbook Pro, macOS 13.4.

Any ideas?

Double popup appears in the corner

Hi,

When a new song change, I receive two popups and they are overlapped.
I have installed it in a Mac (High Sierra OS).

add macOS14 widget (control Spotify from desktop)

Any plans to release to Homebrew?

I was wondering whether there's any plans to release this on Homebrew?

Close/Skip don't show

The Close / Show buttons will not be displayed as in the image: https://i.imgur.com/AW94N2y.png
it looks like this: https://i.imgur.com/TcUaBe8.png

Notifications came twice

When i'm changing manually a song I've got 2 notifications, one without image and the second is normal.

macOS Catalina 10.15.3

add tests

add macOS14 widget (control spotify from desktop)

Notification data not displayed when playing on another device

Hi and thanks for the work on the app, I love it.

When the music is played on an external device (e.g. a Sonos speaker), the notification doesn't display information. If the playback goes back to the Mac, information is displayed again.

No album art

Album art is not showing, despite checking the checkbox.

Add a "Skip" Botton

Allow users to quickly skip to the next song from the notification just like what Apple did in Apple Music.

Enhancement: Hotkey should work when automatic notifications are disabled

Sometimes I don't want to be bothered by notifications every time the song changes, but I still want to be able to press the hotkey and find out what song is playing.

Feature request: Notification icon customization

Have you wondered about Notification icon customization features?
To precise what is missing for me:

• Possibility to hide system tray icon.
• Possibility to use default Spotify icon for seamless "spotify-ish" experience.

Besides that great work.
Cheers 🇵🇱

Does not work even after permissions reset

I've installed Notify as follows

brew tap nahive/spotify-notify
brew install --cask spotify-notify --no-quarantine

Yet, Notify in unable to interact with Spotify (to show notification, play/stop, next/previous, etc.). Following the note in the README

spotify-notify/README.md

Line 54 in c2ed50d

$ tccutil reset AppleEvents

I executed the following command to reset all the permissions for Notify

tccutil reset All $(osascript -e 'id of app "Notify"')

Yet it did not solve anything and Notify still unable to interact with Spotify.

$ sw_vers
ProductName:		macOS
ProductVersion:		13.4
BuildVersion:		22F66

$ defaults read ~/Applications/Notify.app/Contents/Info.plist CFBundleShortVersionString
0.4.0

$ defaults read ~/Applications/Spotify.app/Contents/Info.plist CFBundleShortVersionString
1.2.13.661.ga588f749

Idea: add an option to show current song

Some times, it could be nice to see which song is playing.

A double-click on the status bar icon to re-trigger the notification would be awesome