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Posted: **Fri Jan 17, 2025 3:13 pm**

Hey there. Been banging my head on this for a week or so.

I've tried several implementation approaches to get a simple local html file to display albumart and title-artist as "now playing" so I can use it in other applications.

So far, outputting to JSON has failed, as has outputting to HTML, and just outputting to .txt using a preexisting addon and then converting to HTML.

This is currently failing:

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"use strict";

// Function to write the current track information to a JSON file
function write Now Playing ToJSON() {
    const track = app.player. getCurrentTrack();
    
    if (!track) {
        console.log("No track is currently playing.");
        return;
    }

    // Prepare track information
    const trackInfo = {
        artist: track. artist || "Unknown Artist",
        title: track. name || "Unknown Title",
        album: track. album || "Unknown Album",
        artwork: track. artworkPath || "No Artwork Available"
    };

    const jsonContent = JSON. stringify(trackInfo, null, 2);
    
    // Define the file path to save the JSON file
    const filePath = "\\now_playing. json";

    try {
        // Save the JSON content to the file
        app.filesystem.saveText ToFileAsync(filePath, jsonContent, function() {
            console.log("Now Playing JSON saved to: " + filePath);
        });
    } catch (error) {
        console.error("Error saving JSON file:", error);
    }
}

// Listen for playback state changes and call writeNow PlayingToJSON when playback starts or is resumed
app.listen(app.player, 'playback State', function(newState) {
    if (newState === 'play' || newState === 'unpause') {
        writeNowPlayingToJSON();
    }
});

I am attempting to recreate something like a spotify widget.

I have also looked into installing MMremote5 and faking an android connection to get the data that way.

Any help or pointers in the right direction would be appreciated.

Posted: **Wed Jan 29, 2025 4:20 pm**

Hi,

1) your code includes some unexpected spaces, e.g. instead of

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app.filesystem.saveText ToFileAsync(filePath, jsonContent, function() {
            console.log("Now Playing JSON saved to: " + filePath);
});

use

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app.filesystem.saveTextToFileAsync(filePath, jsonContent, {});

i.e. the third param is optional, for the structure of the param see: https://www.mediamonkey.com/docs/api/cl ... oFileAsync

2) instead of track.artworkPath use track.getThumbAsync :

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track.getThumbAsync(500 /* PX */, 500 /* PX */, function(thumbPath) { 
   let trackInfo = {
   	title: track.title,
   	artist: track.artist,
	artworkPath: thumbPath
   }
   app.filesystem.saveTextToFileAsync( filePath, JSON.stringify( trackInfo));
});

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