Spotify just updated and the scripts stopped working

[justin808]

Latest build of Spotify and this no longer works:

on alfred_script(q)
    tell application "Spotify"
        playpause
    end tell
end alfred_script

Anybody know how to troubleshoot?

[matbrady]

Solution src: community.spotify.com

Just right click spotify.app, select show contents, and use any text editor to edit the Info.plist file

// old line (towards the bottom)
<string>Spotify.sdef</string>
// new line
<string>applescript/Spotify.sdef</string>

Then restart spofity and Alfred 2

[bradical]

@matbrady did this work for you in the most recent release 1.0.2.6.g9977a14b? It worked for me in the previous version, but didn't work with this one.

[justin808]

You definitely have to quick and restart both spotify and alfred. No computer restart is needed.

[bradical]

Nice. Restarting Alfred did the trick. I restarted Spotify multiple times to no avail but didn't realize Alfred restart was necessary. Thanks!

[justin808]

@matbrady This just broke again:

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/Bring-back-Applescript-support/idc-p/1068934#M31916

I'm guessing Spotify updated again, and re-doing the fix to the plist file and restarting got this working again.

[matbrady]

@justin808 yeah I noticed. It's unfortunate we have to patch this every time they push an update that doesn't enable AppleScripts.

[bradical]

Looks like they'll be patching it in a future desktop version: https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/Bring-back-Applescript-support/idc-p/1068934#M31916

On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 6:39 AM, Mat Brady [email protected] wrote:

@justin808 yeah I noticed. It's unfortunate we have to patch this every time they push an update that doesn't enable AppleScripts.

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/phpfunk/alfred-spotify-controls/issues/35#issuecomment-85444915