music Improvements to Music Mini-Player?

[Chris Messina]

Not sure how to frame this, because I don't know how Alfred thinks about media and music playback beyond the native apps macOS comes with... but the built-in Music mini-player works only with Music.app (né iTunes) but seems somewhat antiquated now that podcasts and shows have their own apps:

 

• TV.app
• Podcasts.app

 

While I understand a music mini-player isn't meant to be holistic in nature, I do wonder if it might be possible to make the mini-player pluggable in order to support other music services (i.e. Spotify, YouTube Music)?

 

I currently use Spotificious but it would benefit from the richer interface of the mini-player:

Like, Spotificious works, but it's not nearly as functional as Alfred's mini-player:

 

 

but I think it'd be quite the improvement to Alfred to support other Music Services similar to Sonos:

 

Anyway, I'm filing this under Themes because there are some visual inconsistencies in the mini-player UI and so I figured I'd bring up this broader question ahead of diving into specific theming details related to the mini-player to get the general temperature.

[deanishe]

3 hours ago, Chris Messina said:

the built-in Music mini-player works only with Music.app (né iTunes)

 

Music.app got the media library in the divorce.

 

3 hours ago, Chris Messina said:

 Improvements to Music Mini-Player?

 

"Improvements" is a rather mild way of putting it…

Edited December 9, 2020 by deanishe

[Chris Messina]

9 hours ago, deanishe said:

"Improvements" is a rather mild way of putting it…

 

Well, it's just not clear to me what the path for seeing improvements to this feature would be. It has a unique UI that isn't (AFAIK?) accessible to Workflow devs, so it's not like I could build a Spotify Workflow that uses the music mini-player as it's UI. But that's basically what I'm proposing... I just have no idea how that'd happen and if it'd require a significant change in Alfred's underlying architecture.

[vitor]

47 minutes ago, Chris Messina said:

Well, it's just not clear to me what the path for seeing improvements to this feature would be.

 

“Richer content natively within Alfred is something which has always been on the plan for the future”.