Notification does not show using keyboard shortcut when app first starts

[chrowe]

Environment

• OS X 10.9.2
• Spotify 0.9.7.16.....
• Spotify Notifications 0.4.8

To reproduce:

• Open Spotify and play a song
• Open Spotify Notifications
• If you don't have a "Show Current Song" keyboard shortcut set then set one, else
• Press you keyboard shortcut (F5 in my case)

What I get:

• Sound plays
• "Spotify Notifications" entry shows up in notifications center sidebar.
  
• No popup shows

If I open Spotify Notifications first or skip to the next song after opening Spotify Notifications then everything seems to work fine.

[citruspi]

@chrowe,

This happens because Spotify Notifications gets song information from notifications sent by Spotify when the play state changes (i.e when a track begins playing or is paused).

So, if Spotify begins playing a song before Spotify Notifications is started, Spotify Notifications misses the notification from Spotify and produces a notification with no content - which is why it doesn't popup.

As you noted, if you play/pause/skip after opening Spotify Notifications, everything works. Depending on how much you use Spotify (and Spotify Notifications), I'd recommend just having it start on login.

In addition, I'll implement a check so that empty notifications are not produced.

— @citruspi

[kianlavi]

@citruspi That makes total sense. Thanks so much for clearing that up, cause I was definitely confused at first. I've been using SizzlingKeys for years and it produces a 'No Song Playing' toast if iTunes is closed or it just has no information.

[citruspi]

@kianlavi,

Would you rather see a "No Song Playing" notification or no notification at all?

— @citruspi

[kianlavi]

I personally rely on the keyboard shortcut to see what song is playing at
any given moment, so I think usability would be enhanced by a toast even
when nothing's playing. Something along the lines of what you said or
simply, 'No song is playing'.

On Thursday, May 1, 2014, Mihir Singh notifications@github.com wrote:

@kianlavi https://github.com/kianlavi,

Would you rather see a "No Song Playing" notification or no notification
at all?

— @citruspi https://github.com/citruspi

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Cheers,
Kian H. Lavi

[citruspi]

@kianlavi, @chrowe,

I've added a few lines of code which will produce a notification when the shortcut is activated even if there is no song information recorded.

It will be included in the next release (which will be before June 02), but if you want it before then, feel free to clone and build the project yourself. If you do build it yourself, please let me know if you have any issues.

Thanks.

— @citruspi

[kianlavi]

Thanks again, you're awesome Mihir.