MacOS Catalina Music app

[upup666]

Would you update to Catalina Music app?

[habashyjr]

It works perfectly already.

[upup666]

Its only works with Spotify it doesn't see music app

[ghost]

I have the same issue since i've updated to Catalina, probably related to the new Music App

[maucel89]

On Catalina:
2019-10-16 09:50:47.954 SpotMenu[12833:710505] [Crashlytics] Version 3.11.1 (134) 2019-10-16 09:50:51.552 SpotMenu[12833:710505] Can't find app with identifier com.apple.iTunes 2019-10-16 09:50:51.627 SpotMenu[12833:710505] Can't find app with identifier com.apple.iTunes 2019-10-16 09:50:51.693 SpotMenu[12833:710505] [Crashlytics:Crash] Warning: NSApplicationCrashOnExceptions is not set. This will result in poor top-level uncaught exception reporting.

[Hum4n01d]

This is a pretty bad issue, could we get an update?

[kmikiy]

This commit 5e119e6 adds support for the Music app in Catalina. I will try to release an update as soon as possible.

[Hum4n01d]

I tried to build the app myself but ran into some issues with XCode (it can't finish the install, not specific to this project), could somebody post a build that works with the Music app?

[kmikiy]

you can try this build

[Hum4n01d]

Thank you! Not sure if this is intentional but my settings were reset.

[kmikiy]

it's not intentional but unfortunately I cannot do anything about it. Apple won't let me use the bundle ID I used previously anymore (com.kmikiy.spotmenu) and I had to create a new one (hu.kmikiy.spotmenu) which means I can no longer read the settings that were saved under the previous bundle id.

basically you're settings are still here

$ defaults read com.kmikiy.spotmenu

but the new app now uses

$ defaults read hu.kmikiy.spotmenu

[Hum4n01d]

That's okay

[upup666]

you can try this build

Nice this working but don't sending artworks to the app

[Rackmani]

Just downloaded and tried the latest build above - does work in Catalina but when quit music app also quits Spotmenu. Also sometimes shows artwork sometimes doesn't and scrolling of info in menu bar is distracting if too many characters e.g. when select artist/album/song title.

[musa11971]

@kmikiy can we expect a release for this anytime soon? 😄

update 09/11/19: for those looking for an alternative, there is now Music Bar:

https://musa11971.github.io/Music-Bar/