won't mute Ads

[anonmoez]

For a few weeks my Spotifree won't block the Ads on my mac. I tried to reinstall, but it didn't fix the issue. It's still active and there are no Update available. Do you have any thoughts?

[Pesa]

Same problem here, Spotify version 0.9.16.19.g1c9463fe

[artemgordinskiy]

Hey guys, Have you tried reinstalling Spotify using these instructions? There seems to be a glitch in Spotify breaking the AppleScript interface on update sometimes, and it usually goes away after a complete reinstall.

[Pesa]

Reinstalling put an older version (0.9.15.27.g87efe634) on my system, so I'm unable to say whether the problem is really fixed until Spotify decides to update itself again.

[ghost]

Have you tried a command+alt+escape forcequit + relaunch of spotifree and spotify after reinstall of both spotify and spotifree?

[Pesa]

What's that supposed to accomplish?

[artemgordinskiy]

@Pesa Have you received any updates yet?

[Pesa]

nothing yet

[anonmoez]

@ArtemGordinsky The instructions seemd to work for me, thx.

[iiiGerardoiii]

yup, that fixed it @ArtemGordinsky, thanks

Everyone do what Artem said!

[didjeridou]

Worked for me too! Thanx @ArtemGordinsky

[fait1ux]

Unfortunately I am still having this problem. When spottily is open and playing music already then spotifree instantly gets shutdown and disappears from my dock. Keep repeating and same action occurs. Sometimes I can get spotifree to stay in dock by opening first and then spottily, and says its blocking ads but it doesn't. Sorry Mr. Gordinsky for the trouble. I tried your instructions again to no avail, but perhaps I am doing it wrong. All the best sir.

[artemgordinskiy]

@fait1ux Spotifree does not retain its Dock icon once it's launched. Do you see it in the menubar?

[Pesa]

I finally received the update, to version 0.9.16.25.g241bf986 this time, and Spotifree broke again.

[artemgordinskiy]

@Pesa Okay, let's try and figure out what's going on:

1. Download this script, run it and give me the results. Like this:
2. Follow the Spotify reinstallation instructions again, but skip the 6th step. Then relaunch the app and wait for an ad to come on. This will tell us if this version breaks Spotifree indeed.

[shaharz]

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Help-Desktop-Linux-Mac-and/New-Mac-Update-AppleScript-support-removed/td-p/995843

@ArtemGordinsky FYI, your debug script fails with "Syntax Error: Expected end of line but found identifier." on "state". In addition, "Open Dictionary..." doesn't seem to work for Spotify.app anymore. :disappointed:

[artemgordinskiy]

@shaharz I hope the Spotify team has simply delayed the AppleScript implementation in the new version. Either that, or the day of Spotifree's demise has finally come.

[Pesa]

This is the output of the script when a spot is playing:

tell application "Spotify"
    get player state
        --> playing
    get artist of current track
        --> "Spotify"
    get name of current track
        --> "Spotify"
    get duration of current track
        --> 26
    get popularity of current track
        --> 0
    get track number of current track
        --> 0
end tell
Result:
0

and when an actual song is playing:

tell application "Spotify"
    get player state
        --> playing
    get artist of current track
        --> "Cream"
    get name of current track
        --> "I'm So Glad - Live"
    get duration of current track
        --> 379
    get popularity of current track
        --> 41
    get track number of current track
        --> 1
end tell
Result:
1

[artemgordinskiy]

Thanks! This is version 1.0.1, right? And Spotifree doesn't work?

[Pesa]

version 0.9.16.25.g241bf986

I also reset Caches and Application Support, and it still doesn't mute ads.

[artemgordinskiy]

Okay. Does Spotifree become "active" when Spotify is playing? Have you tried restarting it? Also, would you please run the script again when an ad comes on and tell me what it returns?

[Pesa]

Does Spotifree become "active" when Spotify is playing?

Yes.

Have you tried restarting it?

Yes, no change.

Also, would you please run the script again when an ad comes on and tell me what it returns?

See my previous comment above.

[enellis]

Found the bug. I'll fix it soon.

[enellis]

Does everything work with the latest Spotify and Spotifree now?

[thibmaek]

Nope, I just updated to 1.0.1.1060.gc75ebdfd but Spotifree is not blocking ads

[enellis]

Did you also update Spotifree to version 1.6? And restarted everything?

[Pesa]

Spotifree v1.6 works for me (with Spotify 1.0.1.1060)

Thanks a lot for the quick fix!

[Usbloom]

it does not work for me. (spotify free 1.0.1.1060.gc75ebdfb / spotifree 1.6). Spotifree does a single time, then I have to close & restart it to work again.

[ghost]

@ArtemGordinsky Relax man Spotify hasn't done anything because the rest of the people not commenting, for them its working perfectly. These are the only few people who are having issues.

[enellis]

I think this is fixed for everyone who uses the latest Spotify & latest Spotifree.