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teaminkling / now-playing

A macOS application for Spotify notifications and a now playing visual widget!
MIT License
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Consider rewriting the whole thing as a new project #52

Closed paced closed 3 years ago

paced commented 3 years ago

We could rewrite as a standard macOS app using XCode and Swift. We could have the base set of features and a more stable codebase.

The major reason for doing this is because one can read from the Spotify API, but what about from the actual application? I don't know how macOS apps are sandboxed but if it's possible, there will be major performance and usability benefits (works offline).

For people watching: I'm still planning to update this repo for all features in issues that I've raised. I'd rather not abandon this project since it has a working product

paced commented 3 years ago

No, let's not do that.

Spotify Desktop is clearly an Electron app itself. I'd love Spotify itself to see that this exists and implement their own notifications service into the product.

Obviously they have the advantage of a different API for faster responses. Still, I hope it's helpful.