Get Spotify Currently Playing Track

Get spotify currently playing track

The Spotify client on Linux implements a D-Bus interface called MPRIS - Media Player Remote Interfacing Specification.

http://specifications.freedesktop.org/mpris-spec/latest/index.html

You could access the title (and other metadata) from python like this:

import dbus
session_bus = dbus.SessionBus()
spotify_bus = session_bus.get_object("org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.spotify",
                                     "/org/mpris/MediaPlayer2")
spotify_properties = dbus.Interface(spotify_bus,
                                    "org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties")
metadata = spotify_properties.Get("org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player", "Metadata")

# The property Metadata behaves like a python dict
for key, value in metadata.items():
    print(key, value)

# To just print the title
print(metadata['xesam:title'])

How do I get the audio features of current playing track with Spotify Web API?

setInterval(function(){
        callAjax();
        }, 1000);
        var apiData; 
        var audioData;  
        var callAjax = function(){
         $.ajax({
            url: 'https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player/currently-playing',
            headers: {
              'Authorization': 'Bearer ' + access_token
            },
            success: function(response) {
              currentPlayingPlaceholder.innerHTML = currentPlayingTemplate(response);

              apiData = response;
              console.log(response);
              $('#login').hide();
              $('#loggedin').show();
            }
        });
        if(apiData != undefined){
        $.ajax({
            url: "https://api.spotify.com/v1/audio-features/" + apiData.item.id,
            //url: "https://api.spotify.com/v1/audio-features/06AKEBrKUckW0KREUWRnvT",
            headers: {
              'Authorization': 'Bearer ' + access_token
            },
            success: function(response) {
              audioFeaturesPlaceholder.innerHTML = audioFeaturesTemplate(response);

              //audioData = response;                  
              console.log(response);
              $('#login').hide();
              $('#loggedin').show();
            }
        });
        }

I made a variable called apiData. Then you can identify the id of currently playing track by using item.id
See this screenshot of the console log:
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You can see a subfolder 'item' and in that folder you can find 'id'.

So I replaced this: url: "https://api.spotify.com/v1/audio-features/06AKEBrKUckW0KREUWRnvT"
For this: url: "https://api.spotify.com/v1/audio-features/" + apiData.item.id

It seems to work, maybe it can help others.

Apple Music API Get Currently Playing Song

Unfortunately their API is pretty lame. If you not play anything at the moment you still got a song that was played recently even if that recently was a day ago. Even worse there is no unixdate attached result so you don't know when the song was last accessed.

How to get Spotify current playing song in Python (Windows)?

I encountered the same issue, so I wrote a library to solve this issue. The library can be found at github: https://github.com/XanderMJ/spotilib. Keep in mind that this is still work in progress.

Just copy the file and place it in your Python/Lib directory.

import spotilib
spotilib.artist() #returns the artist of the current playing song
spotilib.song() #returns the song title of the current playing song

spotilib.artist() returns only the first artist. I started working on an other library spotimeta.py to solve this issue. However, this is not working at 100% yet.

import spotimeta
spotimeta.artists() #returns a list of all the collaborating artists of the track

If an error occurs, spotimeta.artists() will return only the first artist (found with spotilib.artist())

Hope this will help you (if still needed)!

Getting currently playing song with Spotipy gives error: 'Spotify' object has no attribute 'currently_playing'

Even if PyPi claims that the version of Spotipy is the latest there, 2.4.4, in fact, it is not. I noticed that after installing Spotipy with pip, its source code is different from the head of the master branch on the GitHub. And the PyPi version doesn't have the currently_playing method.

What worked for me is to uninstall Spotipy by running pip uninstall spotipy and to install it again directly from GitHub:

pip install git+https://github.com/plamere/spotipy.git@master

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