Monthly Archives: April 2012

Spotify is my music player of choice and naturally I want to be able to know what I’m listening to without bringing up Spotify.

At work this is no problem as macs have growl (yes, iMac at work :). At home I have a Windows machine, although while there is growl for windows, Spotify doesn’t use it :sadface:

Solution? Write my own notifier of course, made possible by the fact that Spotify has the current track in its window title.

Long story short, it does this:

Fades in, and fades out again when a new song is playing. It also remembers its position when closed.

Its not configurable, changes to fade speed, time etc. would need to be done in code.

Written in C# with VS2008, source available via GitHub.
ClickOnce install/launcher: ClickOnce (click launch rather than install)
Traditional Installer: SpotifierNotifier-1.0.1.2 (Zip) (RAR)

New in version 1.0.1 21/05/2012 (Thanks to Petter Östergren for suggesting improvements)

• Popup can now be resized
• Popup remembers position/size when moved rather than closed
• Should not steal focus