a "No song playing" notification is shown when using Spotify - JQBX

[ghost]

When playing Spotify using JQBX, a "No song playing" notification is displayed for every song change. The album art is correct. When re-showing the notification (using the hotkey) the track and artist are there.

[mattbroussard]

I have noticed this too when playing through a Sonos. Perhaps it has something to do with Spotify Connect?

[oxydeon]

it's work again for me, no reason...

[mattbroussard]

It seems like this application talks to Spotify using Scripting Bridge, and Spotify is sometimes not returning anything for the "name" field:

$ osascript -e "tell application \"Spotify\" to get name of current track"

$ osascript -e "tell application \"Spotify\" to get id of current track"
spotify:track:1jILVSedO8KYfAZiXvRHcW
$ 

A possible workaround would be to separately look up the track using the ID/URL that seems to still be returned.

[shousper]

I have noticed this too when playing through a Sonos. Perhaps it has something to do with Spotify Connect?

Seconded. Listening on my Sonos via Spotify right now and it's always showing "No song playing".

[jamescastells]

Spotify finally added support for Apple TV. However, when listening there, the notifications in my Mac show up as "No song playing".

[tonglil]

Same when listening through my Amazon Echo device, but it seems to only have started happening recently.

[rustysc]

Yeah like Matt said, it seems to be an issue with Spotify Connect