Spot-Notify

Notifications & more for Spotify App on Mac OS.

• This project provides a script that shows desktop notifications on Mac OS that will contain name, artist, album, and other details of the song when the user starts playing or changes a song when using the Spotify Application.

• The notifications also display a Popularity Score for the song (on a scale of 100) that is currently being played, that indicates the popularity of the song on Spotify.

• Users can select to Skip the song by clicking the Skip button in the notification.

• Clicking on the notification opens the Spotify Application.

• The project also aims to provide various shortcuts for Spotify to help users use various functionalities of the Spotify App without having to change their window while working.

Requirements:

• macOS: >= 10.8

Installation and Usage:

1. Clone the repository (https://github.com/pm2877/Spot-Notify.git) or download the zip file and unzip the contents.

2. Install Node if you don't already have it installed. The best way to do this is using homebrew:

   brew install node

3. Go to the directory where the directory Spot-Notify resides:

   cd path/to/the/repository

4. Install dependencies using the following command:

   cd Spot-Notify
   npm install
   cd ..
   

5. Run the script by typing the following in the terminal:

   node Spot-Notify &
   

6. The script will run in the background. When you play or change songs using Spotify, it will display notifications.

7. To quit, kill the process.

Screenshots:

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• Notification Example 1:

• Notification Example 2: (On Hover)

• Notification Example 3: (Notification Center)

• Notification Example 4: (Lock Screen)

Ongoing work:

- Adding support for album artworks.
- Making installation simpler.
- Shortcuts for skip, forward, shuffle and repeat
- Add to Spotify Library option

Possible Future Work:

- Convert the script to a Desktop App.

Dependencies:

• node-notifier
• spotify-node-applescript

Licenses:

• All code is licensed under the MIT license.

• The image play-music-icon.png is licensed to Spotify AB Inc.

• The image play-music-icon.png is created by Shirley Hernández Ticona from Noun Project and is under Creative Commons License.