How to access the SPOTIFY Artist & Song Title data from another application ?

[Morbius1]

I was wondering if it is possible, while listening to a track on SPOTIFY, to access the Artist & Song Title info of the track currently played as it is displayed at the bottom-left corner of the SPOTIFY window (horizontal scrolling) from another application and how.

Application Example
I wish to write a very simple Windows program which, when launched, will open a Command Prompt window and display :
            You are currently listening to < Artist - Song Title > on SPOTIFY.

Writing such an application supposes to be able to extract this Artist & Song Title data for the current track from SPOTIFY in real time. And I don't know how to do.

My apologies if the question has already been asked. This is a large forum.

Could someone possibly help ?

[OneByBoo]

Hi there @Morbius1,

thanks for reaching out !

If i understand correctly, you wish to have a Spotify "bar" with the title of the current track played while you're working another app ?

If so, i recommend you post your idea on the "Ideas" section of the community using the steps provided here.

Furthermore, Spotify takes its users feedback very seriously, which you can read all about here.

Hope this helps.

Let me know if you have further questions 🙂

[Morbius1]

Hello OneByBoo,

Thank you for your answer.

Yes. Designing a Spotify "bar" as you describe it could be another example.

In any way, in order to implement such an application, be it yours or mine, you will need to extract the Artist & Song Title data of the current track from Spotify.

Do you know of any tool, such as an API, or something else, provided by Spotify, in order to do this ?

[OneByBoo]

Hi @Morbius1

thanks for checking out my post !

Unfortunately, there isn't an API which can perform what you're describing.

Feel free to use the above support pages to post such idea and have users around the community add their +VOTE and help you to promote it.

Have a great day 🙂