Spotify Lyrics in Menubar

Live Spotify lyrics in your macOS menubar. It Just Works.

Downloads

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Requirements

• macOS Ventura or higher
• Spotify Desktop Client

Features

• It Just Works.
• Offline caching! Lyrics are automatically stored offline efficiently using CoreData
• Play some music on the Spotify app and watch the lyrics play on the menu bar automatically.

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Technical Details

• UI is built using SwiftUI.
• The lyrics are updated and fetched using Swift Concurrency and Swift Tasks
• The lyrics are stored into disk using CoreData.
• I interface with Spotify using their AppleScript methods as well as by subscribing to their playback state change notifications.
• I interface with Spotify’s AppleScript methods by using Apple’s provided ScriptingBridge interface.

Acknowledgements / Special Thanks

• Sparkle: For app updates
• Amplitude: For app analytics
• spotify-lyrics-api: For fetching Spotify lyrics
• Spotify: the music platform this project depends on!

GitHub

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