It can be as low as just a couple of hundred megabytes, or spin out of control and take up 10 gigs or more. Needless to say that the cache size may vary depending on how much music you listen to. Why Would You Want to Clear Spotify Cache?Īs Spotify is a streaming service, it is nothing but natural that its algorithms encourage stashing cached data of music you’ve listened to in order to reduce your internet data usage and offer a smoother listening experience.

Becoming the go-to choice for music listening, Spotify app has earned its rightful spot on everyone’s Mac. The shift of how the media is consumed has undoubtedly helped Spotify achieve their level of success among music streaming services. Founded back in 2006, Spotify has vastly added in popularity only over the last couple of years.

So it seems that your only option is to use the old version of this library and hope that is still working properly.Spotify is a music, video, and podcast streaming service developed by Spotify AB in Sweden. It seems that this library is going to be substitute with some new API for Windows/Mac/whatever but for now there are only beta versions for phone OS and I cannot really find anything for Windows. Once there was Libspotify SDK but it is no longer supported. This example comes from the official documentation that you can find here.įor Windows instead I would say that currently there is no clear way to do it. A delay is set added make sure the notification is shown long enough before the script ends Return currentArtist & ' - ' & currentTrackĭisplay notification 'Currently playing ' & trackName Set currentTrack to name of current track as string Set currentArtist to artist of current track as string Method to get the currently playing track

Set currentlyPlayingTrack to getCurrentlyPlayingTrack() Spotify is exposing some API that you can use to query the state of your applicationįor example if you are on an Apple system you can use AppleScript API: - Creates a notification with information about the currently playing track

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