Mac Interface Spotify Client (MISC)

Installation

• Download https://github.com/malikoth/misc/releases/download/v0.1.1/misc.tgz
• Extract, and copy the app to your Applications folder
• Run MISC

Overview

Here's my own take on a nice statusbar app to display the current status of Spotify. It also has COMMANDS to let you control Spotify through applescript.

Here's what it looks like most of the time:

Here are the status and control menus:

You can control the format of the text displayed in the statusbar, and apply Python string formatting to it. You can use all of the variables shown in the 'Current track' menu to display whatever information you want. Python string formatting capabilities give you access to alignment, spacing, fill, number, and min and max width for each field in the format string. Make it as long or as short as you want, and make it display whatever information you care about.

(The ability to set this format string is the primary reason I created this instead of using for instance, Statusfy)

FAQ

OK, that may be a presumptuous title for section, as literally nobody has ever contacted me about this project. Nevertheless...

Q: player position variable doesn't update correctly while playing. What gives? A: This worked great until the 1.x update to Spotify, and now it only updates when you pause Spotify. This is not my fault, and there's nothing I can do about it. Go complain on the Spotify forum and tell them to get their act together!