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marcopixel / monstercat-visualizer

A real time audio visualizer for Rainmeter similar to the ones used in the Monstercat videos.
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Not pulling cover art, song title, or artist from Spotify #191

Open TalostheCat opened 6 years ago

TalostheCat commented 6 years ago

Description

As the title says, that's all I see. The cover is just white with the Monstercat logo with a dropshadow and the text says N/A - N/A

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Mawsonator commented 5 years ago

To the people who it is not working maybe ensure you select the 'Web NowPlaying' media player in the settings, this fixed it for me. mcatCapture

charmarkk commented 5 years ago

Just curious all - what's the difference between Spicetify for Rainmeter and the -cli? The Rainmeter version causes Spotify to lock up any time it updates, necessitating a reboot as there are "processes using the application" etc. That's whether or not Spicetify is disabled/rolled back before the update. Does the -cli have the same issue? Not a terrible workaround, but annoying when in the middle of something.

marcopixel commented 5 years ago

@charmarkk Spicetify for Rainmeter is no longer supported and may break in the future. Also it's no longer required to have Rainmeter as a dependency to have it running, so it's much smaller in size and also much better in performance. As for the update stuff, i haven't seen that issue yet but maybe @khanhas can get us more info about that.

charmarkk commented 5 years ago

@marcopixel Ah neat, I hadn't known that! Thanks! I'll keep an eye to see if @khanhas has anything to add. :)

khanhas commented 5 years ago

I don't remember getting the behaviour as you described. And I don't think Spotify hanging process has anything to do with Spicetify.

If one of Spotify processes get stuck, just run this simple command: ps spotify | kill in Powershell and carry on what you are doing.

charmarkk commented 5 years ago

@khanhas Many thanks for the powershell command, I forget about those. Next time I encounter it, I'll see if I can document it for you [not here]. Maye the -cli will resolve that. Thanks again both of you!

thexmanxyz commented 5 years ago

Just reporting back that the Spicetify approach works well for me. Did the performance of Monstercat Visualizer got worse in one of the last releases? Because I'm noticing higher overall CPU usage when hte skin is enabled!

Linerly commented 5 years ago

@Linerly

  • Check that you switch to WebNowPlaying player in Monstercat setting.
  • If you switched already, check that you added webnowplaying.js in extensions field in config. Run this in powershell to examine config file:
cat $(spicetify -c)

image If there is no webnowplaying.js in extensions field, run:

spicetify config extensions webnowplaying.js
spicetify apply

Still, didn't work. :(

image Hey, at least Spotify works!

Edit: I uninstalled Spicetify and re-install it, then I waited patiently until it's done.

Artemesias commented 5 years ago

@Linerly

  • Check that you switch to WebNowPlaying player in Monstercat setting.
  • If you switched already, check that you added webnowplaying.js in extensions field in config. Run this in powershell to examine config file:
cat $(spicetify -c)

image If there is no webnowplaying.js in extensions field, run:

spicetify config extensions webnowplaying.js
spicetify apply

Still, didn't work. :(

image Hey, at least Spotify works!

Edit: I uninstalled Spicetify and re-install it, then I waited patiently until it's done.

How to uninstalled Spicetify and re-install it??

niennasill commented 5 years ago

I checked with the latest walkthrough and it seems I did everything as described but it's not working.

Btw I tried every version of Spotify and Rainmeter ( Release/Beta - 32/64 bit versions) I don't know if its matters.

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Ein6tein commented 5 years ago

@niennasill - check version of Spicetify. Try to install the latest one (in my case it's 0.9.4)

niennasill commented 5 years ago

@niennasill - check version of Spicetify. Try to install the latest one (in my case it's 0.9.4)

@Ein6tein - Using the latest version of Spicetify-Cli 0.9.5 but I will give try for 0.9.4. At least we can make sure.

niennasill commented 5 years ago

@Ein6tein - Still the same with 0.9.4. It seems the only difference between the two editions are "Reddit and bookmark apps: glue.css missing bug".

Novas473 commented 4 years ago

I found this error with the newest way to, supposedly, have Rainmeter and Spotify linked or whatever, but I am not sure if it is just me... Any time I do the last step, typing "spicetify backup apply", it doesn't seem to be doing the right thing... It adds an additional "\Apps" into the path of the spotify.exe.

Example... I have "C:\Users\ninja\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\SpotifyAB.SpotifyMusic_zpdnekdrzrea0" as my spotify_path, but when I type "spicetify backup apply", it adds an additional "\Apps" at the end of it, making it "C:\Users\ninja\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\SpotifyAB.SpotifyMusic_zpdnekdrzrea0\Apps", which is a non-existent folder within that location on my computer.

There a reason why it adds "\Apps" at the end of the path? And am I even understanding what it means by "spotify_path", being the application (exe file) for Spotify itself, yeah?

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bluelhf commented 4 years ago

I found this error with the newest way to, supposedly, have Rainmeter and Spotify linked or whatever, but I am not sure if it is just me... Any time I do the last step, typing "spicetify backup apply", it doesn't seem to be doing the right thing... It adds an additional "\Apps" into the path of the spotify.exe.

Example... I have "C:\Users\ninja\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\SpotifyAB.SpotifyMusic_zpdnekdrzrea0" as my spotify_path, but when I type "spicetify backup apply", it adds an additional "\Apps" at the end of it, making it "C:\Users\ninja\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\SpotifyAB.SpotifyMusic_zpdnekdrzrea0\Apps", which is a non-existent folder within that location on my computer.

There a reason why it adds "\Apps" at the end of the path? And am I even understanding what it means by "spotify_path", being the application (exe file) for Spotify itself, yeah?

Issue

Spicetify probably requires the desktop version of Spotify, not the Windows 10 version

mttr01 commented 4 years ago

billede I get this?

If i proceed, i need to manually add the path... No idea what to do. I have the right Media Player selected etc.

khanhas commented 4 years ago

@BlenderUser You are using Windows Store Spotify, please uninstall it and download installer from Spotify website.

mttr01 commented 4 years ago

I actually was not! However, i decided to uninstall and reinstall it, just in case something was jacked up... I got further but now have this error: billede

khanhas commented 4 years ago

Please delete the config file and run spicetify again

mttr01 commented 4 years ago

Please delete the config file and run spicetify again

How do i do that? I have tried to find the config.ini file, but there is none! Its weird..

Edit: Nvm, found it... Dont know why everything is acting so janky right now. Will report in a moment

mttr01 commented 4 years ago

Please delete the config file and run spicetify again

It worked. I don't know what caused the initial errors or why a wrong directory was used but it works now. Thanks. On another note: I accidentally pasted the command that changed the theme (brain fart moment). How do i reverse this?

khanhas commented 4 years ago

Read the help text: spicetify -h

ghost commented 4 years ago

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I get an error when applying Spicetify and the visualizer won't show my Spotify pictures etc. still.

EDIT: I have fixed it by just typing "spicetify apply"

SanThes123 commented 4 years ago

So I'm using Youtube music on my Chrome. I downloaded the extension and got the bar and song name and artist to show, but no luck with the cover. Any help?

If I were to use just youtube it gets the cover (at least it seems like it since I just tried 1 song). Although would be better to use the music site since there I have playlists and stuff.

Ferociousn commented 4 years ago

I installed everything correctly. Set mediaplayer to webnowplaying. But visualizer still cant access the spotify. Any help?

huntahs commented 4 years ago

Hey guys! If anyone's cover information has stopped showing, I found a solution.

Head to Powershell. Type "spicetify apply".

Powershell in my case told me my spotify was updated, and I should run "spicetify backup apply" . I asked me to confirm I wanted to run it by typing "y". Then, everything worked again!

ShevikWombat commented 2 years ago

I have same problem as Ferociousn, Ihave installed everything correctly, but it still not showing song info on screen Annotation 2022-01-16 124302 .

Spotify Version : Spotify for Windows 1.1.76.447.g11f432d8

ItsAGeBa commented 2 years ago

For those who still haven't gotten this fixed I followed this Reddit comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/Rainmeter/comments/hn7b0k/monstercat_visualizer_spotify/ Instant fix for me it might help you guys I got song info, artist, song cover, pause/play, next/previous