45:51: execution error: The variable volume is not defined

[MattSchiller]

As the title suggests, when running the shell script & updating from CLI, I get the following output:

% Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100  5672  100  5672    0     0  89126      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  106k
Update finish. 🥳
45:51: execution error: The variable volume is not defined. (-2753)

I'm inclined to think it's something on my end, but figured I'd reach out and see if this was something you were aware of.

For reference:

• Spotify Desktop app (had been working for years -- thank you for this!)
• Monterey 12.6.2, M1 chip

Happy to provide whatever additional information you'd like 🙇‍♂️

[gdi3d]

Hi, I'll check the code to see if I can reproduce the error and fix it.

What happens when you run the script manually after being updated?

[gdi3d]

Closing the ticket due to inactivity and not being able to reproduce the error.

[MattSchiller]

Apologies for not circling back sooner (got lost in the shuffle). The issue is still there:

I hope that helps @gdi3d because I really do love this utility (and hate spotify ads lol)

[gdi3d]

Hey!, its quite strange to be honest. Because there's no variable named volume.

The only place where the volume keyword is present is when osascript is called.

Try the following:

• run osascript -e 'tell application "Spotify" to set A to sound volume' with spotify closed (should return 0)
• run osascript -e 'tell application "Spotify" to set A to sound volume' with spotify open (should return the volumen set in the app 0/100)
• run the script without zsh or similar shells, just plain old regular bash

[MattSchiller]

The only place where the volume keyword is present is when osascript is called. Try the following:

• run osascript -e 'tell application "Spotify" to set A to sound volume' with spotify closed (should return 0) This does return 0

• run osascript -e 'tell application "Spotify" to set A to sound volume' with spotify open (should return the volumen set in the app 0/100) This does return 58 (presumably since my volume is at about halfway)

And I swear to you, as a Senior Dev at a respected company, I am not incompetent. But running these scripts, and then I thought, hey, let me try running the ads-muter program again. And it just worked.

My guess, knowing absolutely nothing of what you've written, is that I got my Spotify or terminal into a weird state mid-some-script. And these commands shook something loose and reset some state.

Or maybe I'm totally wrong. Regardless, I'm happy because this worked and you fixed my issue. THANK YOU <3

[gdi3d]

That's good news!. I'm glad it works ok now! Let's hope it was just a glitch

[sajjad5221]

Hey! I got this error in mac Ventura. I closed Spotify and run it first before Spotify, then it worked!

[gdi3d]

Thanks for the report!