Spotifyd or other media player support

[haley-yung]

This is a great application and adds some beauty to my desktop

However, as the Spotify's client is RAM and battery heavy, I switched to using Spotifyd + Spotifytui
Is it possible to config the UeberPlayer to detect tracks/audio input from alternative players other than Spotify and still be able to show the cover art/ name?

[noatpad]

Hi there, pardon for the late reply. I put this lil' side project on the side for a bit, ahah.

But it should be possible if I implement the Web API as a fallback option to run with, which would allow that combination and any other software that uses that API. Not sure how much I have to add to implement that, but I'll see what I can do

[noatpad]

So here's the thing. It is possible, but the problem is that it's tricky for a few reasons:

• I'm not sure how to authenticate a user in a user-friendly manner, because you need to authenticate it through a browser and it has to make a callback somewhere (I can't do that directly back to the widget to my knowledge). My thought was to have the user do a small process to self-serve a pre-made .html file using Python (since that and the required function comes pre-installed with every Mac) to get the access token and the refresh token easily and plug those into the main widget.
• The other thing is security since from what I can tell; the client ID, secret ID, & access token are all kept in the same directory. It's probably not a big deal, but it might not be the best practice.
• And finally, AppleScript and JSON responses don't go well together, haha. It's definitely doable (I could maybe make a custom bash script for that instead), but that'll take a bit of figuring out on my end.

For now, I think I might put this on the backlog since I'm not quite sure how to take this just yet