Spotify: action depending on status

[Sheugel]

Hi,
I would like to be able to make Eventghost execute (or not) an action depending on the status of Spotify, ie if it's playing or not.
The idea is to execute a slideshow if music is playing.
The trigger would be the idle event.
Could you help me out with that?
Thanks,
Sheugel

[krambriw]

Provided you have added my Spotify plugin to your configuration, you can use this simple script in a macro and add the idle event to it. You can just add your code for the slide show stuff.

Best regards, Walter

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p = eg.plugins.MySpotify.GetStatus()

if p.find('Not playing anything')<>-1:
    print 'do things when not playing'
    #add your code here
    #stop slide show
    
if p.find('Now playing')<>-1:
    print 'do things when playing'
    #add your code here
    #run slide show

[Sheugel]

Hi,
Thanks, it's working but not entirely as... the plugin seems to be broken in the last version of Spotify (0.9.1.53). The logger displays "Spotify running! Not playing anything..." even when Spotify is actually playing something.
I tested with another PC running a previous version of Spotify, the plugin works but after the automatic upgrade of Spotify to the last version, the plugin doesn't work properly as mentioned hereabove...
Any help appreciated.

[Sheugel]

Ok,
It seems the Spotify main window name has changed. Got it working by changing

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	def _parseWindowTitle(self):
		trackinfo = win32gui.GetWindowText(self._hwnd).split(" - ")

lines in pytify.py in Spotify plugin folder with

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	def _parseWindowTitle(self):
		trackinfo = win32gui.GetWindowText(self._hwnd).split("Spotify - ")

Thanks again,
Sheugel