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Now Playing is a webpage widget that tracks and visualizes what's playing on iTunes and Spotify (Desktop App only, it seems). I made this for my Twitch stream and thought I'd share :)
Initially adapted from Zyphen's Now Playing overlay, my version fixes various issues and changes the design to something that's more to my liking.
It also does not require Tuna as it's bundled with Snip.
Download the latest release from the Releases page and extract it somewhere.
Snip
folder and run Snip.exe
.Save Album Artwork
and Save Information Separately
.Empty File if No Track Playing
.Snip
from the tray.Local file
checkbox, click Browse
and select the index.html
file.In the settings.json
file these configuration options are available:
topLabel
may be set to one of the following values: artist
, album
and track
. Defaults to artist
bottomLabel
may be set to one of the following values: artist
, album
and track
. Defaults to track
delayBeforeDisappearance
may be set to a number in seconds, which is a delay before the widget will disappear. Note that if you set this, track/playback changes will not be reflected until the delay has elapsed, as it is uninterruptible. Defaults to null
For use in OBS, run Snip.exe and keep in the background (And if you're using iTunes, conveniently it launches it too). simply quit it when you're done and close Snip from the system tray.
If you want a solution for macOS, check out NowPlayingRetreiver. It can be used with this widget.
This widget comes bundled with Snip and so offers only Windows support out of the box.
In principle any solution which can save a few separate files to the filesystem to be read by the widget, can still work. It's my understanding that Tuna can be used in this way, but I could not figure out how to use it properly.
Pull requests are more than welcome to address any issue you see and expand on this project further. It'd be best to discuss your ideas in an Issue first though.
I'm humbled to have been asked for a donation link, so I set one up: