domenix/ISArtwork-geeklet

Geeklet for Spotify and iTunes player, shows track info and artwork

ISArtwork geeklet

Geeklet for Spotify and iTunes player, shows track info and album artwork.
Works with the GeekTool software on OS X.
Showing album artwork works only with Spotify at this time,
on the albumart's place an iTunes logo will show up instead.

Instructions

###First steps

1. Download the zip file from releases tab

2. Decompress the downloaded isartwork.zip

3. Copy the contents of 'pictures' and 'glets' folders together
   with the isartwork.scpt file to a prefered folder on your computer
   
   Default path:
   /Users/YOUR_USER_NAME/Documents/Tools/Geektool/ISArtwork/

   You should see something like this:

   

4. Open each .glet file in GeekTool, click on YES on every pop-up window

5. Change the albumartwork geeklet's and the other geeklet's path according to your username

6. Rearrange the position of the geeklets and modify their colors to your taste

7. Don't forget to double-check the refresh rate of the geeklets, which is preferably 1 second.

###Using the codes

Using arguments (Default setting)

osascript path_to_script -name     // return track name
osascript path_to_script -artist   // return track artist
osascript path_to_script -album    // return track album
osascript path_to_script -time     // return track time/duration
osascript path_to_script -artwork  // update Artwork.tiff
osascript path_to_script -app      // return application name

In Image Geeklet, set the path to path_to_script_folder/Artwork.tiff

Without arguments

Can be used with only one shell geeklet and with one image geeklet.
The image geeklet still should have an -artwork argument after its path.

osascript path_to_script           // return all information with correct word-wrapping

Screenshots

Spotify playing

iTunes Playing

Without arguments

Credits

Original version made by Luc-Olivier Dumais-Blais
Master branch made by Bryan Tung License

ISArtwork is licensed under the MIT license.