- Changed: Now showing full path in local-track notification for more information
- Fixed: Set default mode to
continuousin code as specified in dafault config - Fixed: Set Volume of local playback before generating the
PLAYERcommand
- Changed: Now waiting a bit before determining playback status on Spotify 1.x
- Added: Debugging output for
pulseaudioadded tospotify-adkiller.sh
- Fixed: Correctly list missing dependencies
- Updated: Clarified intention of this project in our project
README
- Updated: Arch linux installation instructions received refreshed
AUR Package
- Removed: Purged unmaintained projects from
Similar Projectsin ourREADME - Updated: Ad detection method got another try to catch one more ad corner case
- Updated: Playback status is now being determined based on
pulseaudio - Added: New checkdep function to check the existence of needed dependencies
- Fixed: Our script would sometimes fall into a loop of pausing/unpausing playback
- Changed: Several small improvements of our
READMEfor better readability
- Changed: Restored compatibility with Spotify 0.9.x while retaining compatibility with Spotify 1.0.x and future releases
- Changed: Set default automute mode to
automute_simple, now using more robust string manipulation - Removed: Purged dependencies
gawkandwmctrl, addedxdotooldependency to ourREADMEinstead
- Added:
wmctrldependency has been added to ourREADMEto fixSpotify not active. Exiting.
- Removed:
exit 0has been purged since bash willexit 0, if nothing exits with 1 before
- Added: Compatibility with Spotify 1.0.14 without deps on python, now parsing dbus output with
awk
- Removed: Purged
CUSTOM_ALERTbecause it was causing issues with VLC (on top of being annoying)
- Fixed:
install.shis now using the right folder to check for existing config files
- Added: Linked project
spotify-blacklist-mutein ourREADME
- Added: Integrated correct muting of multiple ads when in simple operation mode
- Changed: Reverted changes related to ad detection based on empty
DBUSoutput - Added: New section in
READMEon compatibility with past and future Spotify releases
- Fixed: Resolved false positives due to empty
DBUSoutput at startup
- Changed: Use more elegant text processing, as suggested by @quietoparado
- Fixed: Resolved rare instances where
DBUSoutput has been empty
- Added: Arch Linux Installation Instruction including a
PKGBUILDby @Timidger - Fixed:
Spotify-AdKillernow handles unknown conditions more graciously - Fixed: Resolved rare startup condition where the xprop output was empty
- Changed: Window title changed to newer "Spotify Free - Linux Preview"
- Removed: Many trailing spaces removed and code cleaned a little more
- Fixed: "Error: Spotify not found" has been fixed with new title detection
- Updated: Small updates of
READMEwith re-added header artwork - Updated: Several style updates throughout our whole
CHANGELOG.md - Changed: Launcher comment now matches wording of our respository
- Added:
.gitignorehas been added to avoid upload of garbage
- Added:
CUSTOM_LOOPOPTto support your own custom loop options - Improved: fall back to simple mode if no supported player found
- Improved: Feltzer changed some formatting and phrasing here and there
- Added: Section on related projects to make people contribute there, too
- Fixed: Feltzer nuked a few Issues with the Installer and updated the
README
- Changed: Moved config file setup from AdKiller to
spotify-wrapper - Improved:
DEBUGsetting now enables log file - Improved: Added
DEBUGsetting to configuration file - Improved: Check if installation directory is part of system
PATH - Added: Spacing between Installer outputs and colors for Warnings
- Fixed: Set
XDGpaths in a more safe and generic manner - Fixed: Corrected
CONFIGDIRto be correctly detected by openSUSE
- Added:
XPROP/DBUSdebug output to fix Issues more easily
- Improved: Completely rewrote script logic to fix most false positives/negatives in ad detection
- Improved: Added ability to skip local track in continuous mode
- Improved: Added two new ad blocking modes (simple and interstitial)
- Improved: Added configuration file
- Imprvoed: Added desktop launcher
- Improved: Added installation script
- Improved: Added debug switch
- Improved: Various other small things
- Fixed: Automatically switch to 'simple' mode if no audio files found
- Improved: Several smaller code improvements and more comments on the code
- Fixed: Changed music directory autodetection and substring matching, added a few checks
- Improved: Aligned variables of
XPROPOUTPUT(yes, I admit it: I'm a perfectionist!) - Improved: Updated installation command for required utilities on openSUSE
- Fixed: AdKiller would return false positives if song title contained double-quotes
- Fixed: Empty
XPROP_TRACKDATAwhen playback paused + madeDBUSparsing more safe
- Improved: Added Links to our new
CHANGELOG.mdand beautified some very tiny code snippets - Changed:
DBUS/XPROPcomparison method (old one was failing on certain special characters) - Changed: Reordered
choose_player()by player popularity/availability - Fixed: Removed a debug call to
player()causing the script to keep on switching to local playback - Fixed: Quoted
LOCALMUSICproperly, enabling local playback if the user set a custom music path with spaces
- Added: Really AWESOME FIRST PULL REQUEST by Feltzer with huge re-write and improvements!
- Added: Spotify-AdKiller automatically chooses music player (mpv, vlc, mplayer, mpg321, avplay or ffplay)
- Added: Music player can be overridden with a custom music player setting
- Added: Music player volume can now be chosen
- Added: Spotify-AdKiller automatically chooses default Music folder based on
XDGspecifications - Improved: Changed
ALERTto freedesktop standard, added a lot more comments and fixed typos - Improved: The
READMEof Spotify-AdKiller now contains a section on dependencies - Improved: Expanded
READMEsection on installation and made it more generic - Improved: Added
READMEsection on settings and added important notes as well as trademark statement - Fixed: Spotify stopping when Ad plays
- Fixed: Exiting the script kills all running instances of mpv
- Fixed: Exiting script while local playback is active leaves Spotify muted
- Fixed: Script will launch multiple times when opening Spotify URIs through a browser
- Fixed: Spotify-AdKiller does not start if Spotify takes to long too launch (race condition)
- Fixed: Script will mute unrelated applications under some circumstances
- Fixed: Removed literal quotation of
$DBUS_TRACKDATAas recommended by jetchisel
- Added: Support for international naming of the local music folder which contains the MP3's
- I woke up in the middle of the night and could not sleep any longer always thinking about the script
- My mission was to adopt this awesome script and give it a real home: Spotify-Adkiller was born! ;-)
- Added: Attempt to call generic Spotify name (the binary is named differently on my openSUSE)
Fixed: Locale Issue where muting and unmuting didn't work anymore resolved by hairyheron
- I discovered the original Gist while planning my own Party and listening to creepy Spotify-Ads
- The script worked great, but GitHub-Gist was a bad place to report Issues or mention Users
- The same night, I fell in love with the original script and continously thought about it
- Huge re-write by Feltzer to automatically mute Spotify when an ad comes on and loop an audio file
- Instructions on how to install and use his script where also added by Feltzer in the old Gist
- Another re-write by AmpGod to detect DBus information and support icecast audio streamer
- Added: Code by bigeebeans to support playing a radiostream via VLC
- Spanish users did profit from further recommendations by fernandolguevara
- Fixed: "You have to specify a sink input index and a mute boolean" erased by AmpGod
- Updated: Script now supports icecast with song information thanks to AmpGod
- Improved: Code now supports language-independent locale thanks to jakicoll
- Smaller modifications to enhance the code have been done by anupdhml
- Discussion of the current codebase to improve playback went on for numerous days
- Re-write of the script to support the latest version of Spotify by OlegSmelov
- People extensively tested the very elegant method created by him - wokring awesome!
- Useful code change for muting and unmuting Ads by sbenkk
- Smaller improvements and chit-chat on GitHub Gist followed thereafter
- Recommendation with code for playing internet radio instead of Ads by EDawg878
- First recommendation with code for improvements to mute just Spotify by bim9262
- GitHub-User pcworld launched the initial version of his script on GitHub Gist. THANK YOU!
- (If you're curious, have a glance into the past on https://gist.github.com/pcworld/3198763)