Not pulling cover art, song title, or artist from Spotify

[TalostheCat]

Description

As the title says, that's all I see. The cover is just white with the Monstercat logo with a dropshadow and the text says N/A - N/A

Versions

• Rainmeter Version: 4.2.0r3111
• OS Version: Windows 10 Home 1803 x64 (build 17134)
• Skin Version: 2.0.2
• Spotify DLL Version: 2.1.5
• Spotify Program Version:
  

Additional notes/images

[SoDaBearJess]

I just begun to start having the same issue. Did your Spotify update anytime in the past couple of days?

[TalostheCat]

I have a feeling that's exactly what happened

[GzpyINFT]

@TalostheCat
The same error is occurring for my Visualizer. Tried to downgrade to the previous Spotify update but still, nothing works. Reinstalled Spotify, the Visualizer, Plugins, and Rainmeter. Google DNS is set as well. No success.
It wouldn't be a Windows 10 version complication. We have different versions (I have OS 1709).
It might be a server side issue or outdated Spotify plugin (outdated current release).

Edit: Other players work, other than Spotify.

[OTEKKENDURE]

I have a problem exactly like this within the past 9 hours I can't get song information, cover art or progress indicator. I tried many things and gave up. It's something to do with a change in Spotify's code at their end.

[GzpyINFT]

@OTEKKENDURE Its the SpotifyPlugin.dll outdated I'm pretty sure or broken because of the new Spotify update

[OTEKKENDURE]

Hey thanks @GzpyINFT. I wish Spotify could notify the user as well in the update process. It's all silent background stuff and I have to manually check their sites patch notes for if they updated in the last 24 hours or not. All I can do is wait for an update from here.

[GzpyINFT]

Np.

[P1X3L0V4]

I can confirm that covers are not showing up correctly on Spotify version 1.0.85.259.g4ab01679

[melowody]

Confirmed (Cover, title, and artist not showing up or are N/A) on Spotify 1.0.85.257.g0f8531bd

[marcopixel]

We know about this issue and we'll hope that it can be fixed as soon as possible. For now we can only wait and see if there will be an update for the SpotifyPlugin / SpotifyAPI-Net.

For more information, please visit JohnnyCrazy/SpotifyAPI-NET#254 or RobertFrydenlund/SpotifyPlugin#18 as the issue lies on Spotify removing the local API and replacing it with their new web api.

[th3an7]

Had the same issue... It should work again with https://github.com/RobertFrydenlund/SpotifyPlugin/releases/tag/v2.1.6-beta.2

[Permanently]

Tried this, and it works... for 30 seconds. After that Rainmeter just crashes and I have to relaunch only for the same crash to repeat itself. No idea if that's just the visualiser I'm using or if it's my computer.

[th3an7]

@Permanently yeah... just noticed the same - it's the plugin again... we need to wait for a proper release then...

[DominykasPetke]

Well, I don't know if Spicetify (another Rainmeter plug-in) affects anything here, but I have both that and this visualiser with the WebNowPlaying mode and since Spotify is a Chromium based app now, it does pull the artist, title and the cover art successfully. The only things not working correctly are the song length and now @ point in the song labels.

Quick edit: Another two things that don't work properly are the hide skin when nothing's running and ignore sound when paused options. The skin just stays up, and to hide it you have to close Spotify. On the upside, running the visualiser in the Web mode also allows immediate YouTube integration with the browser and the browser will always take priority over Spotify in this mode, so Spotify can safely stay in the background.

[Ein6tein]

https://github.com/RobertFrydenlund/SpotifyPlugin/releases

Latest version almost works - it periodically drops info, but periodically shows it again

[RobertFrydenlund]

SpotifyPlugin development is discontinued, see RobertFrydenlund/SpotifyPlugin#18 (comment).

[Ein6tein]

@RobertFrydenlund - sad, thanks for the effort, though. Now need to find out, how to make Monstercat visualizer work with Spicetify...

[RobertFrydenlund]

It quite easy really. Just install Spicetify and enable the WebNowPlaying extension (page 2). Then open the Monstercat Visualizer player settings and switch the player type from Spotify to WebNowPlaying, and it should work out of the box.

[Permanently]

Deleted my comment - turns out I'm an idiot and didn't read the instructions properly.

[Linerly]

@Linerly

• Check that you switch to WebNowPlaying player in Monstercat setting.
• If you switched already, check that you added webnowplaying.js in extensions field in config.
  Run this in powershell to examine config file:

cat $(spicetify -c)

If there is no webnowplaying.js in extensions field, run:

spicetify config extensions webnowplaying.js
spicetify apply

Still, didn't work. :(

[BigmacM]

I've tried everything in this thread after the update but still can't get it to work.

[Mawsonator]

To the people who it is not working maybe ensure you select the 'Web NowPlaying' media player in the settings, this fixed it for me.

[charmarkk]

Just curious all - what's the difference between Spicetify for Rainmeter and the -cli? The Rainmeter version causes Spotify to lock up any time it updates, necessitating a reboot as there are "processes using the application" etc. That's whether or not Spicetify is disabled/rolled back before the update. Does the -cli have the same issue? Not a terrible workaround, but annoying when in the middle of something.

[marcopixel]

@charmarkk Spicetify for Rainmeter is no longer supported and may break in the future. Also it's no longer required to have Rainmeter as a dependency to have it running, so it's much smaller in size and also much better in performance. As for the update stuff, i haven't seen that issue yet but maybe @khanhas can get us more info about that.

[charmarkk]

@marcopixel Ah neat, I hadn't known that! Thanks! I'll keep an eye to see if @khanhas has anything to add. :)

[khanhas]

I don't remember getting the behaviour as you described. And I don't think Spotify hanging process has anything to do with Spicetify.

If one of Spotify processes get stuck, just run this simple command: ps spotify | kill in Powershell and carry on what you are doing.

[charmarkk]

@khanhas Many thanks for the powershell command, I forget about those. Next time I encounter it, I'll see if I can document it for you [not here]. Maye the -cli will resolve that. Thanks again both of you!

[thexmanxyz]

Just reporting back that the Spicetify approach works well for me. Did the performance of Monstercat Visualizer got worse in one of the last releases? Because I'm noticing higher overall CPU usage when hte skin is enabled!

[Linerly]

@Linerly

• Check that you switch to WebNowPlaying player in Monstercat setting.
• If you switched already, check that you added webnowplaying.js in extensions field in config.
  Run this in powershell to examine config file:

cat $(spicetify -c)

If there is no webnowplaying.js in extensions field, run:

spicetify config extensions webnowplaying.js
spicetify apply

Still, didn't work. :(

Hey, at least Spotify works!

Edit: I uninstalled Spicetify and re-install it, then I waited patiently until it's done.

[Artemesias]

@Linerly

• Check that you switch to WebNowPlaying player in Monstercat setting.
• If you switched already, check that you added webnowplaying.js in extensions field in config.
  Run this in powershell to examine config file:

cat $(spicetify -c)

If there is no webnowplaying.js in extensions field, run:

spicetify config extensions webnowplaying.js
spicetify apply

Still, didn't work. :(

Hey, at least Spotify works!

Edit: I uninstalled Spicetify and re-install it, then I waited patiently until it's done.

How to uninstalled Spicetify and re-install it??

[niennasill]

I checked with the latest walkthrough and it seems I did everything as described but it's not working.

Btw I tried every version of Spotify and Rainmeter ( Release/Beta - 32/64 bit versions) I don't know if its matters.

• Rainmeter Version:
  

• OS Version:
  

• Skin Version:
  

• Spotify Version:
  

Additional notes/images

[Ein6tein]

@niennasill - check version of Spicetify. Try to install the latest one (in my case it's 0.9.4)

[niennasill]

@niennasill - check version of Spicetify. Try to install the latest one (in my case it's 0.9.4)

@Ein6tein - Using the latest version of Spicetify-Cli 0.9.5 but I will give try for 0.9.4. At least we can make sure.

[niennasill]

@Ein6tein - Still the same with 0.9.4. It seems the only difference between the two editions are "Reddit and bookmark apps: glue.css missing bug".

[Novas473]

I found this error with the newest way to, supposedly, have Rainmeter and Spotify linked or whatever, but I am not sure if it is just me... Any time I do the last step, typing "spicetify backup apply", it doesn't seem to be doing the right thing... It adds an additional "\Apps" into the path of the spotify.exe.

Example... I have "C:\Users\ninja\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\SpotifyAB.SpotifyMusic_zpdnekdrzrea0" as my spotify_path, but when I type "spicetify backup apply", it adds an additional "\Apps" at the end of it, making it "C:\Users\ninja\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\SpotifyAB.SpotifyMusic_zpdnekdrzrea0\Apps", which is a non-existent folder within that location on my computer.

There a reason why it adds "\Apps" at the end of the path? And am I even understanding what it means by "spotify_path", being the application (exe file) for Spotify itself, yeah?

[bluelhf]

I found this error with the newest way to, supposedly, have Rainmeter and Spotify linked or whatever, but I am not sure if it is just me... Any time I do the last step, typing "spicetify backup apply", it doesn't seem to be doing the right thing... It adds an additional "\Apps" into the path of the spotify.exe.

Example... I have "C:\Users\ninja\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\SpotifyAB.SpotifyMusic_zpdnekdrzrea0" as my spotify_path, but when I type "spicetify backup apply", it adds an additional "\Apps" at the end of it, making it "C:\Users\ninja\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\SpotifyAB.SpotifyMusic_zpdnekdrzrea0\Apps", which is a non-existent folder within that location on my computer.

There a reason why it adds "\Apps" at the end of the path? And am I even understanding what it means by "spotify_path", being the application (exe file) for Spotify itself, yeah?

Spicetify probably requires the desktop version of Spotify, not the Windows 10 version

[mttr01]

I get this?

If i proceed, i need to manually add the path... No idea what to do. I have the right Media Player selected etc.

[khanhas]

@blenderuser You are using Windows Store Spotify, please uninstall it and download installer from Spotify website.

[mttr01]

I actually was not! However, i decided to uninstall and reinstall it, just in case something was jacked up... I got further but now have this error:

[khanhas]

Please delete the config file and run spicetify again

[mttr01]

Please delete the config file and run spicetify again

How do i do that? I have tried to find the config.ini file, but there is none! Its weird..

Edit: Nvm, found it... Dont know why everything is acting so janky right now. Will report in a moment

[mttr01]

Please delete the config file and run spicetify again

It worked. I don't know what caused the initial errors or why a wrong directory was used but it works now. Thanks. On another note: I accidentally pasted the command that changed the theme (brain fart moment). How do i reverse this?

[khanhas]

Read the help text: spicetify -h

[ghost]

I get an error when applying Spicetify and the visualizer won't show my Spotify pictures etc. still.

EDIT: I have fixed it by just typing "spicetify apply"

[SanThes123]

So I'm using Youtube music on my Chrome. I downloaded the extension and got the bar and song name and artist to show, but no luck with the cover. Any help?

If I were to use just youtube it gets the cover (at least it seems like it since I just tried 1 song). Although would be better to use the music site since there I have playlists and stuff.

[Ferociousn]

I installed everything correctly. Set mediaplayer to webnowplaying. But visualizer still cant access the spotify. Any help?

[huntahs]

Hey guys! If anyone's cover information has stopped showing, I found a solution.

Head to Powershell. Type "spicetify apply".

Powershell in my case told me my spotify was updated, and I should run "spicetify backup apply" . I asked me to confirm I wanted to run it by typing "y". Then, everything worked again!

[ShevikWombat]

I have same problem as Ferociousn, Ihave installed everything correctly, but it still not showing song info on screen

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Spotify Version : Spotify for Windows
1.1.76.447.g11f432d8

[ItsAGeBa]

For those who still haven't gotten this fixed I followed this Reddit comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/Rainmeter/comments/hn7b0k/monstercat_visualizer_spotify/
Instant fix for me it might help you guys
I got song info, artist, song cover, pause/play, next/previous