A now playing tool intended to be used with OBS.
Spiritual successor to EssentialNowPlaying
My reason for rewriting EssentialNowPlaying is because I still wanted to support it, but I no longer had much interest in C#. I know that Electron apps are somewhat controversial (this app takes up ~40MB whereas the C# app took ~10MB), but this is the version that I would rather maintain long-term. There were some nasty bugs in the C# version that I was just not willing to invest the time needed to fix.
The usage of the program remains very similar.
Currently supported:
- Desktop (Windows [tested], *NIX [untested]):
- Spotify
- iTunes
- VLC
- MPC-HC
- MPC-QT (rip)
- foobar2000
- mpv
- Google Play Music Desktop Player
- WebApps:
- Mixcloud
- Spotify web player (play.spotify.com)
- Soundcloud
- Tunein
- YouTube
- Pandora
- Google Play (play.google.com)
- Deezer
- Bandcamp
- Hype Machine
- Plex
- YouTube Music
- Tidal
Pull requests welcome to add player support. I could also use some Mac/Linux testers.
Download the installer from the Releases page. Double click and away you go.
To use the WebApps, you'll need install the companion extension from the web store. Here's a link to it: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/universal-now-playing-com/lljahlkpnhdopaegadghfjhhkcpdlijg.
Extension repo here: https://github.com/pendo324/universal-np-extension
To use the WebApps you need to do the following:
- Open Universal Now Playing
- Select the Player and set the file path in the Settings tab
- Head to any supported web player
- Click on the Now Playing Companion Extension and "Use on this page"
- On the web pop-up click "Start"
- Go back to Universal Now Playing app and hit "Start"
Be sure that the desktop application is running before activating the extension.
To build, just install the dependencies (npm i/yarn) and then run the build script, e.g. npm run electron:build.