Spotify Player

Artist Name Visibility Option - February 7, 2025

• Added the option to hide the artist's name in the Menu Bar Player.

Fix Your Library - February 4, 2025

• Fix a possibly null issue from getMeAlbums API.

Generate Playlist Improvement - Artists - December 3, 2024

• Modify the prompt so if the description contains "songs from: artist1, artist2, etc" it will only generate a playlist using those artists

Fix Search Command - November 22, 2024

• Even though it's not documented, the Spotify API can return null items in some cases when searching for items. This has now been fixed.

Minor Fixes - September 20, 2024

• Fixed an issue when "Nothing is playing" popped up after commands next, previous and like having Current Track command disabled

Generate Playlist Improvement - September 6, 2024

• Use GPT-4o mini instead of GPT-4o to make it faster.

Add "Start DJ" Command - September 5, 2024

• Added a command to start the DJ using AppleScript, because the Spotify API doesn't support it.

Quicklink to Add Playing Song to Playlist - August 29, 2024

• Adds an action to create a quicklink to add the currently playing song to a specific playlist.

Add Preference to Only Show Music in Search Command - August 26, 2024

• Added a preference to only show music results in the search command for users who don't want to see podcasts and episodes.

Add "Remove All Searches" Action in Search Command - August 22, 2024

• Added Remove All Searches action to remove all search history in one click.

Log out the user if re-authentication fails - July 11, 2024

• Automatically log out users if re-authentication fails, instead of displaying an error message.

Generate Playlist Fixes - June 11, 2024

• Removed automatic copying to clipboard after AI generates a result.
• Improved the error message displayed when the playlist generation fails.

Generate Playlist - June 4, 2024

• Added a new feature where Raycast AI can create a playlist for you. You can then add this playlist to Spotify or queue all the songs directly.

New Album Actions - May 30, 2024

• Added new actions in the album panel: Add To Library and Remove From Library.

Automatically Trigger Current Track - May 28, 2024

• Automatically trigger the current track command when commands that modify the current track state are executed. (Like, Unlike, Next, Previous).

New Actions Added - May 27, 2024

• Added Like and Dislike actions for tracks.

Improvements - May 27, 2024

• Users can now set their preferred first section for search results.
• Added a new keyboard shortcut for "Add to queue".

New "Remove Playing Song from Playlist" command - May 27, 2024

• New command Remove Playing Song from Playlist to remove the current song from the playlist it's in.

New "Add Playing Song to Playlist" command - February 2, 2024

• New command Add Playing Song to Playlist to directly add the current song to a playlist of your choice.
• Removed the condition to filter collaborative playlists from other users, since Spotify doesn't update it correctly.

New "Queue" Command - January 31, 2023

• New Queue command allowing the user to view songs/epsiodes in the queue.

Bug fixes - January 31, 2024

• Fixed a bug that caused launching the Spotify app to not work properly
• Modified the device selection preference for playback

Improvement - January 30, 2024

• Increase the stale data time from 10 minutes to 2 hours

Fix Current Track Like State - December 31, 2023

• Fix showing the like/disliked state of the current track

Feature & Optimisation - December 2, 2023

• Added Select Device command to select the device to play music on.
• Automatically select a device when no device is selected.
• Better handling when no device is found or Spotify is not installed.
• Informative error toast messages.
• Show songs for the Liked Songs playlist.
• Fix uri for Liked Songs playlist.

Feature - September 29, 2023

• Show a Liked Songs playlist in search and library commands.

More Commands - September 7, 2023

• Added Current Track command to view the current track and artist/show, and the like state
• Added Replay command to go to the beginning of the song, replaying it
• Added Set Volume command to set the volume to an arbitrary percent, using an argument
• Renamed Toggle Repeat to Cycle Repeat command to cycle between all three repeat states instead of just two states

Feature - July 31, 2023

• New Menu Bar Player preference to hide the icon when Spotify is not running, or when there is nothing playing.

Typo - July 27, 2023

• Fixed a bug that showed 25% when setting the volume to 75%

Optimisation - July 7, 2023

This update introduces a few optimisations to the Menu Bar Command. We've reduced the number of API calls, and we've also reduced the number of requests to the Spotify API. This should result in a faster and more responsive experience. In order to achieve this, the extension now checks the Spotify Application for the current state of the player. This means that we only need to make API calls when the state changes. With this approach, you can still listen and control Spotify from any connected device. Please note because of this, it's now required to have the Spotify Application running.

Version 2 - June 19, 2023

Spotify Player v2

Spotify Player first launched in October 2021. It was one of our first extensions, and to this day it stands as one of the most popular in the store. Since then, we've learned a lot, received plenty of feedback, and released new, more performant APIs. So now it's time for a refresher ✨ Spotify Player v2 is a complete re-write, focusing on performance, maintainability, and user experience. One of our main goals was to keep the list of commands to a minimum but still allow users to tailor their own experience. This way, both new users of Raycast, as well as more advanced ones, can make the most of Spotify Player.

New Features

• Updated Extension icon
• Updated Menu Bar icon
• Support Podcasts and Episodes in "Now Playing"/"Menu Bar Player"
• Support Podcasts and Episodes in "Search"/"Your Library"
• Support "Transfer Playback" action, available in "Now Playing"/"Menu Bar Player"
• Support "Add to Playlist" action, available in "Now Playing"/"Menu Bar Player"

New Commands

• Search: A single unified search command. Use this to search for artists, albums, songs, playlists, podcasts, and episodes. Use the dropdown menu to filter your search to a specific category. Each category offers contextual actions, so you can dive deeper into the search.
• Your Library: Use this to see your saved artists, albums, songs, playlists, and podcasts. Similar to the "Search" command, it includes a category dropdown and contextual actions.
• Quick Actions: This is a list of lots of Spotify actions. For example: Play/Pause, Like/Dislike current song, Change Volume, and more. If you'd like to have any of these available as a Root Command, you can create Quicklinks via the actions menu (⌘ K).
• Toggle Play/Pause: Use this to toggle the playback of the current song.
• Next: Use this to skip to the next song/episode.
• Previous: Use this to skip to the previous song/episode.

Disabled Commands

This extension includes a few commands that are disabled by default. You can enable them by going to the extension's settings. These commands are:

• Like: Use this to like the current song.
• Dislike: Use this to dislike the current song.
• Set Volume to 0%: Use this to mute the volume.
• Set Volume to 25%: Use this to set the volume to 25%.
• Set Volume to 50%: Use this to set the volume to 50%.
• Set Volume to 75%: Use this to set the volume to 75%.
• Set Volume to 100%: Use this to set the volume to 100%.
• Turn Volume Down: Use this to turn the volume down by 10%.
• Turn Volume Up: Use this to turn the volume up by 10%.
• Toggle Shuffle: Use this to toggle shuffle.
• Toggle Repeat: Use this to toggle repeat.
• Start Radio: Use this to start a radio station based on the current song.
• Copy URL: Use this to copy the URL of the current song/episode.
• Just Play: Use this to quickly start playing a song based on your query.

Removed Commands

• Search Artists: Use "Search" instead. You can use the dropdown menu to narrow your search to artists only
• Search Albums: Use "Search" instead. You can use the dropdown menu to narrow your search to albums only
• Search Tracks: Use "Search" instead. You can use the dropdown menu to narrow your search to songs only
• Search Playlists: Use "Search" instead. You can use the dropdown menu to narrow your search to playlists only
• Browse All: Use the Spotify App instead
• Featured Playlists: Use the Spotify App instead

General improvements

• Menu Bar Player Preferences: "Max Text Length" has a default value of 20
• Menu Bar Player Preferences: "showEllipsis" setting has been removed. It'll always show ellipsis if the title needs to be truncated (based on the "Max Text Length" setting) We hope you enjoy the new and improved Spotify Player Extension — we've obsessed over every detail.

Fix - January 13, 2023

• Allow no-view commands (Like Current Song, Dislike Current Song, Just Play and Star Radio) to initialize authorization.

Feature - December 6, 2022

• Change background refresh interval to keep the menu bar in a more updated state

Feature - November 17, 2022

• Add preference to show ellipsis when menu bar title is truncated.

Fix - November 14, 2022

• Fixed a bug that caused Like Current Song and Dislike Current Song to not function properly.

Fix - October 28, 2022

• Fixed a bug that caused the menubar command to not function properly.

Feature - October 7, 2022

• Implemented add track to queue, can be located in Search Tracks view

Feature - September 12, 2022

• Introduce new command "Dislike Current Song"
• Added dislike action for menu bar

Feature - August 8, 2022

• Introduce new command "Now Playing" to view the current track inside Raycast (and renamed the existing menu bar command to "Now Playing Menu Bar")
• Introduce new command "Featured Playlists"
• Introduce new command "Browse All"

Bug Fixes - August 1, 2022

• Properly handled states for unauthorized state in menu bar and no-view commands
• Added tooltips for menu bar command actions
• Menu bar title will now be updated after performing Next/Previous Track actions

Features & Bug Fixes - July 27, 2022

• Added Play Shuffled actions to Search Playlist, Search Albums commands
• Supported start cross-device playing. Means that if you have the music playing not on your machine - the play actions will trigger playing music whenever you have it.
• Fixed flickering for menu bar items

Features & Bug Fixes - July 30, 2022

• Fixed cases when the Spotify app named not "Spotify" and most of the command didn't work
• Search Albums command now is a Grid
• Fixed subtitle updates when there is no Spotify playing

Feature - July 24, 2022

• Add max. length preference for menubar item

Feature - July 21, 2022

• Introduce new command "Just Play"
• Introduce new command "Now Playing" with menu-bar 🔥
• Introduce new command "Play Similar"

Feature - May 24, 2022

• Added OAuth Support
• Introduce new command "Like Curent Song"
• Introduce new command "Search Artists"
• Redesign for existing commands, add feature to preview albums

Feature - May 23, 2022

• Added the ability to open via the Spotify app instead of always using Spotify Web for everything

Feature - April 26, 2022

• Added playlist and album search

Metadata - March 23, 2022

• Added screenshot, changelog and categories for better discoverability

Initial Version - October 13, 2021