Tag: Now Playing Notify

Version 1.0.0 aimed to solve a single problem: knowing what track just started without switching to Spotify. Occasionally though, there are times throughout the day I want to share a song with someone.

So in the latest build, I added a couple of additional features the most significant of which is to make it easier to grab a link to the currently playing song.

Spotify is my preferred music streaming app primarily because it’s discovery algorithm is second-to-none. But there’s one thing the macOS app doesn’t do that I wish it did (and that third-party apps used to do but have since, apparently, languished): tell me what’s playing.

I spend most of my work day with music running in the background. Spotify lives somewhere behind a dozen windows, and unless I deliberately click over to it, I have no idea what track just started. Sometimes I’ll hear something and think “what is this?” then forget to check because I’m working on something else. By the time I remember, three songs have passed and it’s gone.

Yes, I know the iOS app shows a Now Playing widget. And yes, Control Center on the Mac technically shows media info. But neither of those send me a notification when a new track starts. I don’t want to check something. I want to be told.

So I built Now Playing Notify.