/sp-tray

Gnome extension to display spotify metadata

Primary LanguageJavaScriptGNU General Public License v3.0GPL-3.0

sp-tray

sp-tray is GNOME Shell extension that displays current track information in the system tray using Spotify's dbus interface without using the web API. Like this: Example png

Features

  • Shows the track, artist and album information, and allows you to customize how it's shown

  • It uses Spotify's exposed dbus interface to fetch metadata, doesn't use the web API

  • No premium account necessary

Installation

Preferably, you should:

Alternatively, you could:

  1. Clone this repo anywhere on your computer

  2. Run the install script with ./<path_to_dir>/install.sh

  3. Restart gnome-shell (xorg) and activate the extension via gnome-tweaks. On Wayland you may have to log out and back in.

Dependencies

  • libgtop and gnome-tweaks as usual to load/install GNOME shell extensions.

Translations

I have provided English, German and Turkish translations. If you'd like to contribute translations, please contact me. There are like 7 strings in total.

License

GPLv2+