Issue with Song Title not Changing when Switching Song

[jblais493]

I am sure there is a simple fix - my issue is that upon switching song, the text doesn't alter; in order for the text to be updates I have to restart the spotify-listener serveice, but then run into the same issue upon song switch.

Any help would be great appreciated, great module!

[mihirlad55]

The song title should be changing automatically as long as spotify-listener.service is running in the background. Are you using spotify or spotifyd?

Could you please post your polybar config? Please wrap your config output in:

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[jblais493]

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[colors] ;background = ${xrdb:color0:#222} background = #0000000 background-alt = #444 ;foreground = ${xrdb:color7:#222} foreground = #ffffff foreground-alt = #555 primary = #ffffff secondary = #ffffff alert = #bd2c40 [bar/example] monitor = ${env:MONITOR:DP-4} width = 100% height = 35 ;offset-x = 1% ;offset-y = 1% radius = 0 fixed-center = true enable-ipc = true background = #00000000 foreground = #ffffff line-size = 3 line-color = #f00 border-size = 0 border-color = #00000000 padding-left = 0 padding-right = 2 module-margin-left = 1 module-margin-right = 1 ;font-0 = "NotoSansMono Light Nerd Font Complete":pixelsize=16;1 ;font-0 = Saucecode Pro Nerd Font:style=semibold;pixelsize=20;1 ;font-0 = Montserrat:style=Light:size=16;1 font-0 = JetBrainsMono Nerd Font:style=semibold:pixelsize=18;3 font-1 = Weather Icons:style=Regular:size=18;1 font-2 = Sarasa Gothic HC:style=semibold:pixelsize=18;1 font-3 = Font Awesome 5 Free:style=Regular:pixelsize=16;1 font-4 = Font Awesome 5 Free:style=Solid:pixelsize=16;1 font-5 = Font Awesome 5 Brands:style=Regular:pixelsize=16;1 font-6 = Material Icons:style=Bold:pixelsize=18;1 modules-left = bspwm modules-center = mpd spotify previous playpause next modules-right = weather temperature pulseaudio battery wlan bluetooth date powermenu tray-position = right tray-padding = 2 ;tray-background = #0063ff wm-restack = bspwm ;wm-restack = i3 ;override-redirect = true ;scroll-up = bspwm-desknext ;scroll-down = bspwm-deskprev ;scroll-up = i3wm-wsnext ;scroll-down = i3wm-wsprev cursor-click = pointer cursor-scroll = ns-resize [module/xwindow] type = internal/xwindow label = %title:0:30:...% [module/bspwm] type = internal/bspwm label-font = 2 pin-workspaces = true inline-mode = false enable-click = true enable-scroll = true reverse-scroll = true fuzzy-match = true format = label-dimmed-foreground = #ffffff label-dimmed-occupied = %icon% label-dimmed-occupied-foreground = #626483 label-dimmed-occupied-padding = 2 label-dimmed-empty = %icon% label-dimmed-empty-foreground = #3a3c4e label-dimmed-empty-padding = 2 label-focused = %icon% label-focused-foreground = #f8f8f2 label-focused-background = #ea3a3c4e label-focused-underline = #ffffff label-focused-padding = 2 label-occupied = %icon% label-occupied-foreground = #ffffff label-occupied-padding = 2 label-urgent = %icon% label-urgent-foreground = #f8f8f2 label-urgent-background = #eaff5555 label-urgent-padding = 2 label-empty = %icon% label-empty-foreground = #ffffff label-empty-padding = 2 label-monocle =  label-monocle-foreground = #ffffff label-tiled =  label-tiled-foreground = #ffffff label-fullscreen =  label-fullscreen-foreground = #ffffff label-floating =  label-floating-foreground = #ffffff label-pseudotiled = P label-pseudotiled-foreground = #ffffff label-locked = " " label-locked-foreground = #ffffff label-sticky = " " label-sticky-foreground = #ffffff label-private = " " label-private-foreground = #ffffff ws-icon-0 = 1;一 ws-icon-1 = 2;二 ws-icon-2 = 3;三 ws-icon-3 = 4;四 ws-icon-4 = 5;五 ws-icon-5 = 6;六 ws-icon-6 = 7;七 ws-icon-7 = 8;八 ws-icon-8 = 9;九 ;                 [module/bluetooth] type = custom/script exec = ~/.config/polybar/scripts/bluetooth.sh interval = 2 click-left = exec blueberry click-right = exec ~/.config/polybar/scripts/toggle_bluetooth.sh format-padding = 0 format-background = #00000000 format-foreground = #ffffff [module/weather] type = custom/script exec = ~/.config/polybar/polybar-forecast-linux-x86_64 exec-if = ping openweathermap.org -c 1 interval = 600 label-font = 2 [module/mpd] type = internal/mpd label-song-foreground = ${colors.primary} format-online = icon-prev =  icon-stop =  icon-play =  icon-pause =  icon-next =  label-song-maxlen = 50 label-song-ellipsis = true ;[module/mpd] ;type = internal/mpd ;format-online = ; ;icon-prev =  ;icon-stop =  ;icon-play =  ;icon-pause =  ;icon-next =  ; ;label-song-maxlen = 25 ;label-song-ellipsis = true [module/xbacklight] type = internal/xbacklight format = label = BL bar-width = 10 bar-indicator = | bar-indicator-foreground = #fff bar-indicator-font = 2 bar-fill = ─ bar-fill-font = 2 bar-fill-foreground = #9f78e1 bar-empty = ─ bar-empty-font = 2 bar-empty-foreground = ${colors.foreground-alt} [module/backlight-acpi] inherit = module/xbacklight type = internal/backlight card = intel_backlight [module/cpu] type = internal/cpu interval = 2 format-prefix = " " format-prefix-foreground = ${colors.secondary} format = label = %percentage:2%% ; Spacing between individual per-core ramps ramp-load-0 = ▁ ramp-load-1 = ▂ ramp-load-2 = ▃ ramp-load-3 = ▄ ramp-load-4 = ▅ ramp-load-5 = ▆ ramp-load-6 = ▇ ramp-load-7 = █ [module/memory] type = internal/memory interval = 2 format-prefix = " " format-prefix-foreground = ${colors.secondary} format = label = %gb_used% ; Only applies if is used ramp-used-0 = ▁ ramp-used-1 = ▂ ramp-used-2 = ▃ ramp-used-3 = ▄ ramp-used-4 = ▅ ramp-used-5 = ▆ ramp-used-6 = ▇ ramp-used-7 = █ ramp-used-foreground = ${colors.secondary} [module/wlan] type = internal/network interface = wlp4s0 interval = 3.0 format-connected = ; Default: %ifname% %local_ip% label-font = 6 label-connected = %essid% label-connected-foreground = #ffffff ; Default: (none) label-disconnected = not connected label-disconnected-foreground = #66ffffff ; Default: (none) ;label-packetloss = %essid% ;label-packetloss-foreground = #eefafafa ; Only applies if is used ;  ramp-signal-0 =  ramp-signal-1 =  ramp-signal-2 =  ramp-signal-3 =  ramp-signal-4 =  ramp-signal-5 =  ramp-signal-6 =  ramp-signal-7 =  ramp-signal-foreground = ${colors.primary} [module/eth] type = internal/network interface = enp0s25 interval = 3.0 format-connected-underline = #55aa55 format-connected-prefix = " " format-connected-prefix-foreground = ${colors.foreground-alt} label-connected = %local_ip% format-disconnected = ;format-disconnected = ;format-disconnected-underline = ${self.format-connected-underline} ;label-disconnected = %ifname% disconnected ;label-disconnected-foreground = ${colors.foreground-alt} [module/date] type = internal/date interval = 1 date = ;date-alt = " %Y-%m-%d" date-alt = " %m-%d" time = %H:%M time-alt = %H:%M format-prefix =  format-prefix-foreground = ${colors.foreground-alt} label-font = 1 label = %date% %time% [module/pulseaudio] type = internal/pulseaudio ; Sink to be used, if it exists (find using `pacmd list-sinks`, name field) ; If not, uses default sink ;sink = alsa_output.pci-0000_12_00.3.analog-stereo ; Use PA_VOLUME_UI_MAX (~153%) if true, or PA_VOLUME_NORM (100%) if false ; Default: true use-ui-max = true format-volume = label-font = 6 label-volume = %percentage%% label-volume-foreground = ${colors.foreground} label-muted = muted label-muted-foreground = ${colors.foreground} ; Only applies if is used ramp-volume-0 =  ramp-volume-1 =  ramp-volume-2 =  ramp-volume-foreground = #ffffff ;[module/pulseaudio] ;type = internal/pulseaudio ; ;format-volume = ;label-volume = VOL %percentage%% ;label-volume-foreground = ${root.foreground} ; ;label-muted = 🔇 muted ;label-muted-foreground = #666 ; ;bar-volume-width = 10 ;bar-volume-foreground-0 = #55aa55 ;bar-volume-foreground-1 = #55aa55 ;bar-volume-foreground-2 = #55aa55 ;bar-volume-foreground-3 = #55aa55 ;bar-volume-foreground-4 = #55aa55 ;bar-volume-foreground-5 = #f5a70a ;bar-volume-foreground-6 = #ff5555 ;bar-volume-gradient = false ;bar-volume-indicator = | ;bar-volume-indicator-font = 2 ;bar-volume-fill = ─ ;bar-volume-fill-font = 2 ;bar-volume-empty = ─ ;bar-volume-empty-font = 2 ;bar-volume-empty-foreground = ${colors.foreground-alt} [module/alsa] type = internal/alsa format-volume = label-volume = VOL label-volume-foreground = ${root.foreground} format-muted-prefix = " " format-muted-foreground = ${colors.foreground-alt} label-muted = sound muted bar-volume-width = 10 bar-volume-foreground-0 = #55aa55 bar-volume-foreground-1 = #55aa55 bar-volume-foreground-2 = #55aa55 bar-volume-foreground-3 = #55aa55 bar-volume-foreground-4 = #55aa55 bar-volume-foreground-5 = #f5a70a bar-volume-foreground-6 = #ff5555 bar-volume-gradient = false bar-volume-indicator = | bar-volume-indicator-font = 2 bar-volume-fill = ─ bar-volume-fill-font = 2 bar-volume-empty = ─ bar-volume-empty-font = 2 bar-volume-empty-foreground = ${colors.foreground-alt} [module/battery] type = internal/battery ; This is useful in case the battery never reports 100% charge full-at = 95 ; Use the following command to list batteries and adapters: ; $ ls -1 /sys/class/power_supply/ battery = BAT0 adapter = ADP1 ; If an inotify event haven't been reported in this many ; seconds, manually poll for new values. ; ; Needed as a fallback for systems that don't report events ; on sysfs/procfs. ; ; Disable polling by setting the interval to 0. ; ; Default: 5 ;poll-interval = 5 ; see "man date" for details on how to format the time string ; NOTE: if you want to use syntax tags here you need to use %%{...} ; Default: %H:%M:%S ;label-prefix =  ; Available tags: ; (default) ; ; ; format-charging = ; Available tags: ; (default) ; ; ; format-discharging = ; label-discharging = %percentage% ; Available tags: ; (default) ; ; format-full = ; Available tokens: ; %percentage% (default) - is set to 100 if full-at is reached ; %percentage_raw% ; %time% ; %consumption% (shows current charge rate in watts) label-charging = %percentage%% ; Available tokens: ; %percentage% (default) - is set to 100 if full-at is reached ; %percentage_raw% ; %time% ; %consumption% (shows current discharge rate in watts) label-discharging = %percentage%% ; Available tokens: ; %percentage% (default) - is set to 100 if full-at is reached ; %percentage_raw% label-full = Fully charged ; Only applies if is used ; ramp-capacity-0 =  ramp-capacity-1 =  ramp-capacity-2 =  ramp-capacity-3 =  ramp-capacity-4 =  ; Only applies if is used ;bar-capacity-width = 10 ; Only applies if is used animation-charging-0 =  animation-charging-1 =  animation-charging-2 =  animation-charging-3 =  animation-charging-4 =  ; Framerate in milliseconds animation-charging-framerate = 750 ; Only applies if is used animation-discharging-0 =  animation-discharging-1 =  animation-discharging-2 =  animation-discharging-3 =  animation-discharging-4 =  ; Framerate in milliseconds animation-discharging-framerate = 500 ; [module/temperature] type = internal/temperature thermal-zone = 1 warn-temperature = 60 ; format = format-prefix = " " ;format-underline = #f50a4d format-warn = ;format-warn-underline = ${self.format-underline} format-warn-underline = #f50a4d label = %temperature-c% label-warn = %temperature-c% label-warn-foreground = ${colors.secondary} ramp-0 =  ramp-1 =  ramp-2 =  ramp-foreground = ${colors.foreground-alt} [module/powermenu] type = custom/menu expand-right = true format-spacing = 1 label-open =  label-open-foreground = #fffff label-close =  cancel label-close-foreground = #e06c75 label-separator = | label-separator-foreground = ${colors.foreground} menu-0-0 = reboot menu-0-0-exec = menu-open-1 menu-0-1 = power off menu-0-1-exec = menu-open-2 menu-1-0 = cancel menu-1-0-exec = menu-open-0 menu-1-1 = reboot menu-1-1-exec = sudo reboot menu-2-0 = power off menu-2-0-exec = sudo poweroff menu-2-1 = cancel menu-2-1-exec = menu-open-0 ;[module/powermenu] ;type = custom/menu ; ;expand-right = true ; ;format-spacing = 1 ; ;label-open =  ;label-open-foreground = ${colors.secondary} ;label-close =  cancel ;label-close-foreground = ${colors.secondary} ;label-separator = | ;label-separator-foreground = ${colors.foreground-alt} ; ;menu-0-0 = reboot ;menu-0-0-exec = menu-open-1 ;menu-0-1 = power off ;menu-0-1-exec = menu-open-2 ; ;menu-1-0 = cancel ;menu-1-0-exec = menu-open-0 ;menu-1-1 = reboot ;menu-1-1-exec = sudo reboot ; ;menu-2-0 = power off ;menu-2-0-exec = sudo poweroff ;menu-2-1 = cancel ;menu-2-1-exec = menu-open-0 [settings] screenchange-reload = true ;compositing-background = xor ;compositing-background = screen ;compositing-foreground = source ;compositing-border = over ;pseudo-transparency = false [global/wm] margin-top = 0 margin-bottom = 0 ; vim:ft=dosini [module/previous] format-font = 5 type = custom/ipc ; Default hook-0 = echo "" ; When spotify active hook-1 = echo "" click-left = "spotifyctl -q previous" [module/next] format-font = 5 type = custom/ipc ; Default hook-0 = echo "" ; When spotify active hook-1 = echo "" click-left = "spotifyctl -q next" [module/playpause] format-font = 5 type = custom/ipc ; Default hook-0 = echo "" ; Playing hook-1 = echo "" ; Paused hook-2 = echo "" click-left = "spotifyctl -q playpause" [module/spotify] format-font = 1 type = custom/ipc ; Default hook-0 = echo "" ; Playing/paused show song name and artist hook-1 = spotifyctl -q status --format '%artist%: %title%' ;icon-prev =  ;icon-stop = "" ;icon-play =  ;icon-pause =  ;icon-next = 

As an addendum, the module change occasionally if I let the song play to the end, but it's random if it does or doesn't. Weirdly enough this config works perfectly on my laptop with songs following perfectly. May just be a bug with the font I am using?