Spotify Tray

MacOS only

Description

This application fetches spotify status with osascript from the Spotify Desktop application and displays the result in the system tray.

How to use the app

Download the latest version of the app dmg from the releases page

Launch the app or from the terminal as a process. A system tray should appear with information about current track data from the Spotify desktop app. You can format this information with some options by clicking on the system tray:

• Show artist first: show the artist first and then the title (default: true)
• Show album: show the album as well (default: false, lot of space get's taken in if you also enable the album)
• Show progress: show a percentage with how far the track has progressed (default: true)
• Use more space: use 64 characters for artist and 64 characters for track title, otherwise use 20 characters (default: true)
• Use alternate separator: use -§- as a separator instead of -.
• Open at login: open the app when mac starts up or user logs in

How to create the app

• Install go on your machine (brew install go)

CLI

• Build with make build
• Execute with ./dist/spotify-tray

App

• Build with make macapp
• Open the Spotify Tray.dmg that was created in the release folder

Generate icon

You can generate a custom tray icon with make generate_icon icon=path-to-file