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Re: Show HN: See your current Spotify song in the menu bar

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Post by jonathang6k »

In case you'd like to learn more about my development process, I wrote a brief blog post here: https://www.garelick.net/2024/04/22/some-thoughts-on-going-f...

A significant portion of the code was written with Claude Opus. I was very impressed with its abilities.

Re: Show HN: See your current Spotify song in the menu bar

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Post by msarnoff »

Nice! I made a similar app about 10 years ago for iTunes: https://github.com/74hc595/Currentsong

Had a lot of the same features (like the scrolling marquee), but I just built it as a personal project, never put it on the app store or anything like that. I don’t even know if it’ll build or run on modern macOS, but it’s still on github if you want to see some fossilized Objective-C code :p

Re: Show HN: See your current Spotify song in the menu bar

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Post by jonathang6k »

msarnoff wrote: post #3

Nice! I made a similar app about 10 years ago for iTunes: https://github.com/74hc595/Currentsong Had a lot of the same features (like the scrolling marquee), but I just built it as a personal project, never put it on the app store or anything like that. I don’t even know if it’ll build or run on modern macOS, but it’s still on github if you want to see some fossilized Objective-C code :p

That's awesome, I'll be sure to check it out!

I deliberately chose not to use marquee because of CPU usage, but if there's a more efficient way, I can definitely integrate that.

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Post by treve »

jonathang6k wrote: post #4
msarnoff wrote: post #3

Nice! I made a similar app about 10 years ago for iTunes: https://github.com/74hc595/Currentsong Had a lot of the same features (like the scrolling marquee), but I just built it as a personal project, never put it on the app store or anything like that. I don’t even know if it’ll build or run on modern macOS, but it’s still on github if you want to see some fossilized Objective-C code :p

That's awesome, I'll be sure to check it out! I deliberately chose not to use marquee because of CPU usage, but if there's a more efficient way, I can definitely integrate that.

Wild that marquee, which was a browser feature in the late 90s, could cause CPU concerns 25 years later.

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Post by NaOH »

msarnoff wrote: post #3

Nice! I made a similar app about 10 years ago for iTunes: https://github.com/74hc595/Currentsong Had a lot of the same features (like the scrolling marquee), but I just built it as a personal project, never put it on the app store or anything like that. I don’t even know if it’ll build or run on modern macOS, but it’s still on github if you want to see some fossilized Objective-C code :p

Since I'm back on Mojave this is great. Thank you. Much better than the method I previously used combining GeekTool and AppleScript. If I upgrade my OS and ever use Spotify I'll hit the OP's menu bar app.

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Post by serial_dev »

That it's not part of the official app just shows you how strange our industry's prioritization practices are, and if it doesn't have an ROI, it won't happen. We should encourage developers to think about their users and have some pride and craftsmanship when it comes to shipping stuff to their users.

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Post by spike021 »

Nice! Back in around 2012 or so Spotify still didn't even do MacOS notifications so I rigged up an easy AppleScript to do it (I want to say with Growl first and a bit later with native notifications? Been a while).

It's always surprising to me that Spotify/Apple Music/etc. don't seem to want to natively add functionality like this to their UX.

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Post by actionfromafar »

spike021 wrote: post #8

Nice! Back in around 2012 or so Spotify still didn't even do MacOS notifications so I rigged up an easy AppleScript to do it (I want to say with Growl first and a bit later with native notifications? Been a while). It's always surprising to me that Spotify/Apple Music/etc. don't seem to want to natively add functionality like this to their UX.

Spotify wants you to spend time in their app. Apple is just doing Apple things, I guess.
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