vdesabou

Hi, ever since I updated to the latest version of Spotify, Spotifious seems to have stopped working. While I can search for things fine, it does not detect songs playing and does not change songs. Is this a known problem with the update or is this a problem with just me?

Hi, it is not the same workflow, but problem is the same, see this link explaining how to workaround the problem (by reverting back to previous Spotify version).

Hope it helps

Version 6.1.1 is available  

http://alfred-spotify-mini-player.com/blog/Version-6.1.1/

There is now a blog post to give more information about the Spotify update causing issues and how to revert back to previous version, see http://alfred-spotify-mini-player.com/blog/issue-with-latest-spotify-update/

If you are one of the users who got an automatic update of Spotify desktop application (version 1.0.1, the one with Lyrics button), the workflow is broken because the AppleScript support is broken, see https://github.com/vdesabou/alfred-spotify-mini-player/issues/66 for details and how to install previous version and prevent auto-update.

You can also kudos the problem here https://community.spotify.com/t5/Help-Desktop-Linux-Mac-and/Instant-issues-with-new-update/m-p/1040271#M111276 so that Spotify gets it fixed ASAP

This looks great

 

Are there any Spotify controllers that doesn't require having the Spotify Mac app running all the time?

 

Like a controller for mopidy-spotify or spotifyd?

No I don't plan to use these kinds of controllers for my workflow because it requires a Spotify Premium account and I don't want to restrict the audience.

There was an enhancement issue proposed some time ago https://github.com/vdesabou/alfred-spotify-mini-player/issues/40 as well.

I'll stick to Spotify WEB API + Applescript for now.

Version 6.1 is available http://alfred-spotify-mini-player.com/blog/Version-6.1/

I just have to chime in and say that this workflow is really amazing. It's one of the most polished ones that I've seen released. I recently looked at the code, and it's pretty amazing how much effort has been put into it, so kudos Vincent for making something so amazing and eminently useful.

Thanks a lot Shawn, coming from you it's a real honor ! 

Version 6.0.4 is available http://alfred-spotify-mini-player.com/blog/Version-6.0.4/

Version 6.0.3 is out http://alfred-spotify-mini-player.com/blog/Version-6.0.3/

Hi, I'm very new to Alfred and I'd like to use your cool workflow. But I can't make it work

I've run the terminal-share install on my Yosemite 10.10.2 and added the workflow. 

When I write "share" on Alfred I get the options: https://www.dropbox.com/s/8yayt6f0q0v2tgf/Screenshot%202015-02-02%2010.25.26.png?dl=0

But if I select any option the window just closes and I get no error nor any notification.

What's wrong? Thank you

Hi, can you install this version http://inft.ly/GJ9LV7u and then try again. After you try, there should be a file output.txt in your Downloads directory. Send me the output of this file.

Version 6.0.21 is available with small bug fixes http://alfred-spotify-mini-player.com/blog/Version-6.0.21/

Version 6.0.1 is released, it should fix problems seen by some users (no such table: artists error, or "No ’error’ provided in response body" when creating library)

IMPORTANT: If you got issue with library creation with version 6.0, follow steps here and choose 'Browse to App Support Folder', then in Finder, delete library.db and fetch_artworks.db files before re-creating the library

Blog post: http://alfred-spotify-mini-player.com/blog/Version-6.0.1/

Version 6.0 is now live ! I have even created a specific website for describing the workflow http://alfred-spotify-mini-player.com

See the release note http://alfred-spotify-mini-player.com/release-notes/#v6.0

Minor note: Twitter no longer uses the letter "t" as its brand, only the bird.

 

 

Brand assets and guidelines

Thanks, I'll try to update the workflow when I get time. However, if you would like to do a Pull Request, feel free to propose one, the source code is on GitHub at https://github.com/vdesabou/alfred-mountain-lion-builtin-sharing

 

[EDIT] Having read the thread from the start it turns out that this is actually Vincent's workflow thread.  I'll say then that this workflow is working for me on Yosemite 10.10.1 with Office 2011 using the method I describe below.

 

Yes that's the same thing 

Which version of Microsoft word 2011 do you have installed?

I have a Mac which has version 14.2.0 and the workflow works.

My another Mac has version 14.4.7 and the workflow is broken.

So the problem is not related to Yosemite, it is related to an update Microsoft made which has broken the Apple Script "Save As" support, and I can't find anywhere someone complaining about it. I'm not sure how to report bugs to Microsoft, I'll have a look...

Is there no Yosemite support? Doesn't work for me on 10.10.1

Yeah, it's broken. Looks like Microsoft screw up something with "Save As" support..

This simple applescript is giving error "Microsoft Word got an error: active document doesn’t understand the “save as” message. (-1708)":

tell application "Microsoft Word"
	open "Macintosh HD:Users:vdesabou:Downloads:test.doc"
	save as active document file format format PDF file name "Macintosh HD:Users:vdesabou:Downloads:test.pdf"
end tell

This must be working normally..So it looks a Microsoft Word issue to me. So it's unlikely to have a fix for this workflow soon.

EDIT:  Word 2011 version 14.2.0: It is working properly. With Word 14.4.7 it is broken.

In any case, the source code is open source and available here https://github.com/vdesabou/alfred-convert-word-to-pdf so if you want to have look, you can. If you find anything, you can do a Pull Request.

I have tried the version you sent me by PM and now things work fine after running 3 times the "create library" command. Thank you!

Ok good. I'm a bit surprised you had to run it 3 times with this version. But anyway, the next version would definitely improve this.

I think you're looking for Spotify Mini Player 

Ah ah!   We need an hotline I guess now !

@dapitts08, please post to the linked indicated by Citelao, I'll be happy to help

I have already tried the first workaround (kill the update and create the library again) with no success. After killing the update I got no improvement on the progress in some attempts, so now I gonna try to reduce the size of my library. Thank you for the fast reply.

I sent you a PM so that I can get the debug file, maybe that's an other issue...

Depending on the problem I may have to release a version 5.21 as it seems to impact quite a lot of users...

Thanks

I have the same issue (library update stops at some point and never completes). Should I just wait the issue to be solved or I can do something at the moment?

I assume that it is the first time you use the workflow, is that right?

When the create/update library starts, it has a token from Spotify which is valid 1 hour. As it is the very first time you use the workflow, it downloads all artworks so it takes a while, so after one hour, the token is no more valid and the update stops..

Season's Greetings From Canada!

 

Re your Spotify Mini Player I have followed all instructions to date but I seemed to be hung up at the Library updating stage, according to the message I get, 1350/7196 tracks have been uploaded or processed but that was from last night.

 

As discussed by email, I've identified the problem and opened issue https://github.com/vdesabou/alfred-spotify-mini-player/issues/35

And please follow instructions from here https://github.com/vdesabou/alfred-spotify-mini-player/wiki/Troubleshooting

I need this debug file to help troubleshooting.

Season's Greetings From Canada!

After seeing the Alfred Christmas 2014 calendar and the announcement of this Spotify mini-player (Day 13) I decided to "attempt" to install the workflow.

 

As background, although I have been using Alfred for approximately 1-2 years, I am a newbie when it come to workflows; I have installed some however.

 

Re your Spotify Mini Player I have followed all instructions to date but I seemed to be hung up at the Library updating stage, according to the message I get, 1350/7196 tracks have been uploaded or processed but that was from last night.

 

I have gone over most of the back (in time) postings on this site to see if people have had similar issues, they have. I thus tried to follow some of your suggestions:

 

1. As per a posting on this forum from last year (see below)

 

"Can you check your /Users/YOUR_USER/Library/Application Support/Alfred 2/Workflow Data/com.vdesabou.spotify.mini.player directory and let me know if you have some files in there?

You should have a library.json, library_starred_playlist.json and playlist_*.json files (one per playlist)"

 

I have checked my library and I do indeed have the folder described above but I do not have any of those .json files. 

In the com.vdesabou.spotify.mini.player  folder I have:

Artwork folder

library_new.db

settings_tmp.db

settings.db

update_library_in_progress

Looking forward to some assistance in getting your workflow up and running.

Don J J Carroll

Hi, Sure I'll be happy to help. Can you open an issue here https://github.com/vdesabou/alfred-spotify-mini-player/issues 

It would be better to do debugging from there.

Version 5.2: note that settings will be reset and you will have to re-enter your Spotify App Client Id and Client Secret again:

Change log:

• Added Create Artist Radio playlist (number of tracks is configurable, 30 by default)

• Added Create Song Radio playlist feature (number of tracks is configurable, 30 by default)

• Added command artist_radio to create artist radio playlist from current artist

• Added command song_radio to create song radio playlist from current track

• Continue using the workflow while updating library (playlist, all playlists or Your Music)!

• Added command lyrics to get lyrics from current track

• New sub-menu for Current Track (hotkey available for quick access)

I added a list of know issues to the WIKI, https://github.com/vdesabou/alfred-spotify-mini-player/wiki/Known-Issues