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What is the bug ?
"Spotify didn't connect to the local API, please try again."
Spytify is unable to connect to the "local api" regardless of what ive tried;
1- Running spotify with admin
2- Running EspionSpotify.exe with admin
3- Rebooting
4- Running on a second machine
5- Using the windows 10 app for spotify
6- Using the desktop exe app for spotify
7- Changing firewall settings for both Spytify and Spotify
8- Disabling the firewall outright

How to reproduce it or what's the expected behavior ?

Open EspionSpotify.exe
Press start

Screenshots

Hi,

me again :-) In the past I already integrated the Spotify API to pull track/album information from the Spotify API. I wanted to record now again a few songs and noticed that the local API is not working anymore. I had a look and Spotify is having the currently playing song (plus of course still the track/album details) available in their API. The thing is that authentication requires now a client ID+secret plus also needs the user to authorize the application to make requests on his behalf.

You said last time that you do not want to add such settings that require users to enter secrets from their Account into any third party app.

But just in case if you are interested I added the functionality as a proof of concept (not optimized for nice code). If you register an application in the spotify developer portal (https://developer.spotify.com/dashboard/applications) and set the client ID + client secret in the app.config it will use the Spotify API to get your real playing track and the metadata/images directly from Spotify.

Of course I can still understand that you may not want to add such code to your solution - but for me personally I wanted to have it and of course would also like to share it in case you are interested.

Here is the commit: eleasarchriso@5bebe07

What is the bug ?

Turning on DISABLE ADS makes the Daily Mix menu to disappear and the radio breaks

How to reproduce it or what's the expected behavior ?

Add a warning before disabling ads that it will break Spotify Radio and Daily Mix

• the track need to be set as the current title
• should start recording right after the track is detected

What is the bug ?
It says my format is not supported even though it is set to the correct setting

How to reproduce it or what's the expected behavior ?
Run the program as normal, click spy, and then you get the error.

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What problem will this new feature resolves?

Allows the user to record songs in higher quality. Currently, Spotify streams 320kbps Ogg Vorbis, which is higher quality than 320kbps MP3, generally.
Also, I believe VBR > ABR > CBR in terms of quality. Spytify is restricted to 320kbps ABR.

What feature or enhancement would you like to see added?

Allow the user to customize encoding settings so we can control the recording quality.
I mostly just want V0 VBR.

When trying to record under the mp3 option I am getting the error,
"Error while recording: Unknown exception: $Unsupported number of channels 8
Parameter name: format"

This happens only if the mode is set to mp3 (not wav) and I have tried adjusting other settings (such as bitrate and output path) but no success.

What is the bug ?

A clear and concise description of what the bug is.
LP like cracking or jitter in mp3 only not in spotify play (v1.1.3.0)
How to reproduce it or what's the expected behavior ?
Steps to reproduce the behavior or describe the expected behavior:
record songs with silent passages
adding EspionSpotify to no defender task list does not help !
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Due to bugs on lastfm, some of the song don't have covers (and some don't download from img host). I think the best way now is to change method of gattering meta directly from spotify using api.

What is the bug ?

In meta data in place of Album name there is a song name, so its hard to organize it properly later.

there is already a validation if a user try to set an invalid path, but he sets it and then deletes the folder in windows explorer and start the spying session it will say:

//Error while recording: Your computer audio format is not supported. 
Format needs to be '2 channels, 24 bit, 48000 Hz (Studio Quality)' 
(Control panel > Sound > Properties > Advanced).

instead, it should stop the session and say: // Error: the output path does not exists anymore

currently set with OkCancel buttons, should be an Ok only button

Any support for recording at 96000 kHz ?
Edit - 48000 kHz working fine for me. I don't even really know if 96000 kHz @ 160kbps is going to make that much of a difference. Can close if this isn't planned for the future.

cant no longer disable ads now

local url

instead of using the process to get infos, use the local api to get these :

• Get track title
• Get artist name
• Get album title
• Get song length
• Get current track position
• Check if the track is an ad
• Check if Spotify is playing/on pause
• Get album art

with the track, artist and album, we can find other infos using last api if available :

• get first genre tag (search for toptags/tag/name)
• get album arts from them since spotify only provides 1 art instead of usual 4
  • small (search for image[size='small])
  • medium (search for image[size='medium'])
  • large (search for image[size='large'])
  • extralarge (search for image[size='extralarge'])
• get track number on the album (search for tracks/track/name, get tracks/track/@rank)

If you record a track with the following structure. "Title of track - Example Artist Remix" and "Group every artist by folder" is selected it won't show the remix line so the folder structure will be: ...\Original Artist\Title of Track.mp3 without the "- Example Artist Remix" behind it.

Here some screenshots to clarify.

Changing the Settings > Output path: variable appears to have no effect on where the music is saved. Opening the output path using the browse button within Spytify does open the folder specified in the output path but it is empty. The music is actually being recorded in the default path %HOMEPATH%\music

How to reproduce it or what's the expected behavior ?
Change the output path and see where the music is recorded

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i always get
// Error while recording: Recording multi-channel files is not supported, reduce the number of channels to 2 (stereo) or 1 (mono).

i use the default stereos settings through, no enable virtual suround sound or anything like this

Okay so i'm a complete beginner at github and i'm not really sure how this works but i've run into a couple issues when using the program which i wanted to report, they're all minor issues and i'm not sure if i'm doing this right but here goes:

• skipping songs does not records the right length - related #22

After I ended recording a set of songs and started a new one, I skipped the first song which prompted it to skip because it was too short and then the next two songs recorded had their set lenght as 16:59 and 25:22 even though they're 4 and 6 minutes long. I've tried it again and i played 3 songs normally which had the correct length and the 4th one had 12:40.

[INVALID] only possible if the PC has more than one sound card, can't listen to anything else while recording

Also I'm using the Windows Store Spotify app (i can't find the desktop installer) and in most aspects it works fine, however it doesn't mute some other applications when recording. For example i played a youtube video in the middle of recording a song and i could hear it when I replayed the song later. Perhaps I just misunderstood how this is supposed to work? (I mutes system sounds and steam but it doesn't mute Chrome for some reason)

• international characters not being displayed properly in the names of files (meta data are fine)
• can't create directories using international chars

Japanese/korean characters aren't being displayed in the program and in the names of files but are still being registered (as unacceptable characters i guess?) because when i tried copy pasting the blank space which got blued out into chrome, the google doodle disappear but clicking enter didn't result in a search but rather stayed on the same page ) THEY ARE however correctly displayed in the metadata (the names of songs and artists).
Also when the artists name is in japanese/korean, having the option to create a seperate folder for each artists it won't create a folder but rather just place the track there

Thanks for the program btw, a real life saver

https://api.github.com/repos/jwallet/spy-spotify/releases

get : "tag_name", "body",

get booleans: "prerelease", "draft"

Hi, I'm using Win 7 32bit, Spotify 1.0.77.338, Spytify 0.810 and I'm recording to WAV files and mostly audiobooks.

It's not uncommon that the narrator of an audiobook speaks up to the last second of a track, so Spytify is truncating sometimes the last word/s.

Thanks in advance!

An timer for recording will be great

regards john

Is there a way to store the cd art too?

The file c:\users\user\downloads\spytify-v1.1.0.1\spytify.exe is infected with Atc4.Detection and was moved to quarantine.

Find newest spotify ads domains to block them

What problem will this new feature resolve ?

When recording long playlists and stopping in the middle, i have to perfectly stop playback at the end of a track, otherwise i end up with an incomplete recording. There are ways to work around it, but it's tedious.

What feature or enhancement would you like to see added ?

A Button (or maybe checkbox) that makes the recording stop after the next track has ended. This way i can just press the button, wait a bit and everything is fine.

What is the bug ?
A song is identified as an Ad.

How to reproduce it or what's the expected behavior ?
Play the song, it shows it is an Ad, while it is not.

More info
If I switch to another song and then play back the same song again. it starts to record it.

Debug.zip

If the setting for "Group every artist songs inside their own folder" is enabled and the recorder deletes a recording (Ad or song less than x seconds) the recording is deleted, but the artist folder remains with nothing in it.

this tool is really nice and i like to use it so often :)
I have connected some audiocards to my computer with advanced configuration. my Spotify do not use the default audio output device and when i now try to use spytify i can not connect to spotify and cannot record songs.

i would like to see an configuration where i can change the audio input device in spytify. So spytify records just the sound from this device and not only my standard windows sound. This would be really nice because sometimes i recorded songs and got some windows sounds in the songs too ;)

or maybe i do not see the configuration. is it already possible to change the input device?

I tried on two different machines to get a good record result but any mp3 I record does have pops and clicks inside.

I used a premium account at 320 kbps.

Do you have any idea where it comes from?

I'm trying the new Spytify v1 and now it seems that tracks start recording maybe one or 2 seconds too late.

Thanks in advance!

Using Spytify v1.1.3.1 under Windows 10 Pro x64 1709 (Build 16299.125). Version 1.1.0.1 crashed after 1 or 2 songs. Version 1.1.3.1 now crashes after 1-5 songs. So the new version is a bit better but not crash-proof. Any ideas? Maybe you can improve some stuff like you already did for Win7? The program crashes immediately so I even cannot create a crash dump report for you using Windows Task Manager. I recognized that while recording the HDD load is almost 99-100%.

+1 si au lancement si une session a été lancée avant sans activer l'option.
+1 lors de la fin de session

What problem will this new feature resolves ?
Well sometimes if I am using spotify and I want this thing to be grabbing music at the same time for later listening/on the go I might hit the same song that has already been recorded. This creates a duplicate recording which if your collection large it can be annoying (obviously not impossible) to track down and remove dupes.

What feature or enhancement would you like to see added ?
An ignore feature if there is a file of the same name already in the folder. A pref for this would be fine under advanced settings.

old title: pause timeout is too quick, it pauses the session between two songs
edit: while using ezblocker

I'm not sure if this is a known bug but sometimes album art isn't added for some songs.