monstercat-visualizer Not pulling cover art, song title, or artist from Spotify

Description

As the title says, that's all I see. The cover is just white with the Monstercat logo with a dropshadow and the text says N/A - N/A

Versions

Rainmeter Version: 4.2.0r3111
OS Version: Windows 10 Home 1803 x64 (build 17134)
Skin Version: 2.0.2
Spotify DLL Version: 2.1.5
Spotify Program Version:

Additional notes/images

Jul 18 '18 23:07 TalostheCat

I just begun to start having the same issue. Did your Spotify update anytime in the past couple of days?

Jul 19 '18 02:07 SoDaBearJess

I have a feeling that's exactly what happened

Jul 19 '18 10:07 TalostheCat

@TalostheCat The same error is occurring for my Visualizer. Tried to downgrade to the previous Spotify update but still, nothing works. Reinstalled Spotify, the Visualizer, Plugins, and Rainmeter. Google DNS is set as well. No success. It wouldn't be a Windows 10 version complication. We have different versions (I have OS 1709). It might be a server side issue or outdated Spotify plugin (outdated current release).

Edit: Other players work, other than Spotify.

Jul 19 '18 15:07 GzpyINFT

I have a problem exactly like this within the past 9 hours I can't get song information, cover art or progress indicator. I tried many things and gave up. It's something to do with a change in Spotify's code at their end.

Jul 19 '18 15:07 OTEKKENDURE

@OTEKKENDURE Its the SpotifyPlugin.dll outdated I'm pretty sure or broken because of the new Spotify update

Jul 19 '18 16:07 GzpyINFT

Hey thanks @GzpyINFT. I wish Spotify could notify the user as well in the update process. It's all silent background stuff and I have to manually check their sites patch notes for if they updated in the last 24 hours or not. All I can do is wait for an update from here.

Jul 19 '18 17:07 OTEKKENDURE

Np.

Jul 19 '18 17:07 GzpyINFT

I can confirm that covers are not showing up correctly on Spotify version 1.0.85.259.g4ab01679

Jul 20 '18 06:07 P1X3L0V4

Confirmed (Cover, title, and artist not showing up or are N/A) on Spotify 1.0.85.257.g0f8531bd

Jul 20 '18 08:07 melowody

We know about this issue and we'll hope that it can be fixed as soon as possible. For now we can only wait and see if there will be an update for the SpotifyPlugin / SpotifyAPI-Net.

For more information, please visit https://github.com/JohnnyCrazy/SpotifyAPI-NET/issues/254 or https://github.com/RobertFrydenlund/SpotifyPlugin/issues/18 as the issue lies on Spotify removing the local API and replacing it with their new web api.

Jul 20 '18 09:07 marcopixel

Had the same issue... It should work again with https://github.com/RobertFrydenlund/SpotifyPlugin/releases/tag/v2.1.6-beta.2

Jul 22 '18 11:07 th3an7

Tried this, and it works... for 30 seconds. After that Rainmeter just crashes and I have to relaunch only for the same crash to repeat itself. No idea if that's just the visualiser I'm using or if it's my computer.

Jul 22 '18 12:07 Permanently

@Permanently yeah... just noticed the same - it's the plugin again... we need to wait for a proper release then...

Jul 22 '18 12:07 th3an7

Well, I don't know if Spicetify (another Rainmeter plug-in) affects anything here, but I have both that and this visualiser with the WebNowPlaying mode and since Spotify is a Chromium based app now, it does pull the artist, title and the cover art successfully. The only things not working correctly are the song length and now @ point in the song labels.

Quick edit: Another two things that don't work properly are the hide skin when nothing's running and ignore sound when paused options. The skin just stays up, and to hide it you have to close Spotify. On the upside, running the visualiser in the Web mode also allows immediate YouTube integration with the browser and the browser will always take priority over Spotify in this mode, so Spotify can safely stay in the background.

Jul 24 '18 13:07 DominykasPetke

https://github.com/RobertFrydenlund/SpotifyPlugin/releases

Latest version almost works - it periodically drops info, but periodically shows it again

Jul 25 '18 12:07 Ein6tein

SpotifyPlugin development is discontinued, see https://github.com/RobertFrydenlund/SpotifyPlugin/issues/18#issuecomment-407540174.

Jul 25 '18 13:07 RobertFrydenlund

@RobertFrydenlund - sad, thanks for the effort, though. Now need to find out, how to make Monstercat visualizer work with Spicetify...

Jul 25 '18 14:07 Ein6tein

It quite easy really. Just install Spicetify and enable the WebNowPlaying extension (page 2). Then open the Monstercat Visualizer player settings and switch the player type from Spotify to WebNowPlaying, and it should work out of the box.

Jul 25 '18 14:07 RobertFrydenlund

Deleted my comment - turns out I'm an idiot and didn't read the instructions properly.

Jul 27 '18 11:07 Permanently

Spicetify does not work at all for me..

Switched on the webnowplaying, clicked restart on Spicetify.. unless I am missing something?

Jul 29 '18 17:07 hobhobuk

It'll be because you didn't activate the WebNowPlaying hook app on Spicetify. At least, that was my issue.

Jul 29 '18 17:07 Permanently

No that is done.. I presume this does not work with the actual Spotify program?

Works fine if I open the browser and play via the web browser.. not really a solution though.

Jul 29 '18 17:07 hobhobuk

It does work with the actual program. It might be a new update that I'm not aware of (I'm not at home right now) or it might just be the case of an incorrect setup. Either way, it worked for me a few days ago.

Try making sure the Chrome/Firefox extension is active, as well as the Spicetify Default CSS being in place.

Jul 29 '18 17:07 Permanently

I was having this issue but I just fixed it. When you change extensions you have to hit apply, but the apply button was grayed out. I hit backup and waited for that to complete, and then I was able to hit apply. Once apply was done, I could see the artist and album cover.

Jul 29 '18 17:07 SoDaBearJess

While this is a very temporary fix (I do have several more changes planned and several contingency plans as well) for the time being here is a spotify plugin that will work until we get rate limited again (So don't over share/release skins that use this version)

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/359027238584320002/474674288645898250/SpotifyPluginHotfix_1.0.0.rmskin

Aug 02 '18 20:08 tjhrulz

Unfortunately, that fix will not only crash Rainmeter, but the text changes from N/A - N/A to 0 - 0. This only happens with Spotify as the media player.