Post by tjhrulz » March 6th, 2018, 7:10 pm

redsaph wrote: I have the same issue as well as the same Spotify version and plugin. Add the fact that the progress measure isn't returning the values well for the bar meters... it's been pretty buggy.

1. It is undocumented and no one knows it exists unless they have looked at the source code for the plugin

2. It only works for Spotify premium users (f--- Spotify for this btw)

3. It will control other devices as well (Which is actually kinda cool)

Alright let me clear the air on what has happened here as actually this is a Rainmeter issue caused by an oversight by the Spotify team and not a SpotifyPlugin issue. As of Spotify version 1.0.75.483.g7ff4a0dc Spotify changed its rendering system a good bit. While it is still chromium based it is using a newer version. Upon doing so they forgot to change the default class name for the window so the window is named "Chrome_WidgetWin_0".So why does this matter, well most people do not use the spotify plugin to control spotify becauseSo this means that they are using the NowPlaying plugin built into Rainmeter which relies on finding the Spotify window and sending the function key commands to it and pulling basic data from the window. It does this by looking for a window with the class name "SpotifyMainWindow", which no longer exists. The only way to find it now is to find "Chrome_WidgetWin_0" which is a default name and there is going to be a lot of them that exist on your system and there is no easy way to tell which belongs to Spotify.So for the time being sit tight and I will wait to see what happens with this and if need be will try to find some way around it. I never got around to opening an issue on the Rainmeter github but the first one I saw and the one that has the most information right now is the one on the MonstercatVisualizer github: https://github.com/MarcoPixel/Monstercat-Visualizer/issues/144 Edit: I have also now submitted a new issue report with Spotify if you want you can kudos is to try to get their attention about this: https://community.spotify.com/t5/Ongoing-Issues/Windows-Desktop-app-now-uses-default-chrome-class-name/idi-p/4409722