Spotify (api is partially broken)

[krambriw]

That looks really nice!

You know, I use a library for the api and the fanart is not supported there but if we find a way how to grab it and send it, for sure it would be nice. I am not an expert on the Command Fusion plugin but using serial was easy it showed.

Are you good in using the guiDesigner? Could you do me a favour and just make a simple project with one page presenting what is sent with serial? No fancy stuff needed, just that simple feature? I have guiDesigner and could open the simple project just to have a glance how this is done.

Best regards, Walter

EDIT: If you look back on page 4 in this thread, there is a method mentioned how the fanart can be captured and saved as jpg. Remains just to find out how we shall send a jpg to the phone

[husa550]

That looks really nice!

You know, I use a library for the api and the fanart is not supported there but if we find a way how to grab it and send it, for sure it would be nice. I am not an expert on the Command Fusion plugin but using serial was easy it showed.

Are you good in using the guiDesigner? Could you do me a favour and just make a simple project with one page presenting what is sent with serial? No fancy stuff needed, just that simple feature? I have guiDesigner and could open the simple project just to have a glance how this is done.

Best regards, Walter

EDIT: If you look back on page 4 in this thread, there is a method mentioned how the fanart can be captured and saved as jpg. Remains just to find out how we shall send a jpg to the phone

I'l make a gui-file for you.
Working all weekend but do it as soon as possible!
Do you want for iphone or ipad?

[krambriw]

Thanks m8,
For iPhone would be great! In the mean time I have made a macro that captures the fanart as a jpg based on the code I referred to and it works pretty neat. If you could find out how we could send a jpg file to to Command Fusion, I will include this in an updated plugin.

Best reg Walter

[husa550]

Thanks m8,
For iPhone would be great! In the mean time I have made a macro that captures the fanart as a jpg based on the code I referred to and it works pretty neat. If you could find out how we could send a jpg file to to Command Fusion, I will include this in an updated plugin.

Best reg Walter

Check your PM !

[MANswers]

Thanks for the spotify plugin. i am using this with eg for iRule. is there any update with new features on this plugin? anyone tried using a gui frontend on their iphone or ipad for feedback and changing tracks or controlling the player?
I am talking about something similar the JRiver Media Player has called the Gizmo that can be used on any device to control the player

[krambriw]

Hi, thanks,

I made this plugin almost 4 years ago with great help using the 'pytify' wrapper made by Bjoerge Naess. A re-work could be justified. There has been some interesting movements in terms of python support for Spotify like 'pyspotify' and 'spotimeta'. With those wrappers I believe it would be a rather normal effort to make a new plugin supporting additional feaures like search and look artists. This plugin could then become a real Spotify client built into EG instead of as it is now, EG controlling the Spotify application.

Best regards, Walter

[MANswers]

Thanks for your reply Walter, are you planning to update anything for this plugin? Spotify is getting pretty famous now around the world and particularly the US. I believe every few weeks more and more users are linking their facebook account with spotify.

[opitmalt]

I downloaded the Spotimeta library for getting data from Spotify's metadata API and can now use it to save the coverart of the song currently playing as C:\spotify.png:

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import spotimeta
import urllib2
import urllib
import json
urllib.urlretrieve(json.load(urllib2.urlopen("https://embed.spotify.com/oembed/?url=" + spotimeta.search_track(eg.plugins.MySpotify.GetCurrentArtist() + u' - ' + eg.plugins.MySpotify.GetCurrentTrack())["result"][0]["href"]))['thumbnail_url'].replace("cover","640"), "c:\\spotify.png")

[Samme]

Hi Walter!

Do you know if this plugin have stopped working with newer versions of Spotify? Atleast it isn't working for me.

Running the macro "Start Spotify" gives "The directory name is invalid.".

Any ideas?

[krambriw]

Hello,
Just tried it here, it works fine to both start, play, stop and terminate Spotify (tried with Vista 32 bit)
Do you run W7 64 bit?

Best R Walter

[Samme]

Hi again!

Yes I run W7 64 bits, is that the reason? I have gotten it to work before...

[krambriw]

I have the same error when I try it with W7 64 bit...it seems that Spotify is not installed under the normal path like "Program...", instead it is installed under ..\AppData\Roaming\Spotify
At least in my laptop...

[krambriw]

You can change the path in the plugin code yourself. Find this section and modify it accordingly

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class StartSpotify(eg.ActionClass):
    name = "Start Spotify"
    description = "Starts Spotify"


    def __call__(self):
        eg.plugins.System.Execute(
            u'C:\\Program Files\\Spotify\\spotify.exe',
            u'',
            0,
            False,
            2,
            u'C:\\Program Files\\Spotify'
        )
        return

[Samme]

Thanks a lot Walter!

That fixed it!

[leothlon]

Is it possible to have the plugin trigger an event when spotify song changes?
I want to send the new information to command fusion or a webpage when it changes instead of having to request the data on set timers all the time (have websockets send out the new data to website rather than updating the page every 10-ish seconds).

same with the code above that alows getting the coverart, i want that to trigger getting the new coverart right away when spotify changes song.