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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon teaminkling

Now playing shows up with cached data when Spotify is closed

Open msudgh opened this issue 2 years ago • 6 comments

Hi @paced, I encountered a strange behavior that seems to be a bug.

Steps To Reproduce

I repeatedly tried to toggle now-playing through the macOS menu bar. Also, I made sure Spotify is closed completely then a scrollbar with cached data (the last song played) appeared in now-playing.

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/11756815/166101347-eb92d001-7b69-428f-952c-ae475cdfc8ba.mov

Expected Behavior

Warn end-user there's no active player or still show loading

msudgh avatar Apr 30 '22 10:04 msudgh

Thanks for the report @msudgh. I think the cached/previous song appearing is an Electron quirk. It seems like this was intended behaviour from the previous maintainer (e.g., if the current song can't be determined, just show as "loading") but I am escalating to a bug since it is bad UX as it currently is.

Please note that things are a bit slow on this project due to real-life commitments, but we will get to this when we can.

paced avatar Apr 30 '22 12:04 paced

Indeed, It brought bad UX and a bit confusion.

I understand how an open source project takes time and dont worry about that. There's no rush for a patch/fix as the bug have low priority

Thanks

msudgh avatar Apr 30 '22 16:04 msudgh

Can I suggest a different expected behaviour: no notification

tgrrr avatar Jun 19 '22 08:06 tgrrr

@tgrrr Could you please elaborate what you mean?

paced avatar Jun 19 '22 08:06 paced

In my opinion, the expected behavior when Spotify is closed (or maybe even paused) should be to display no song title at all in the menu bar.

Wever1985 avatar Jul 27 '22 11:07 Wever1985

We will keep that in mind for user experience @Wever1985, thanks for the report.

paced avatar Jul 28 '22 01:07 paced