And, I realized that it's a good thing in terms of security (otherwise malware can read my email password etc). UISpy from microsoft gives me a bit more info but it's not possible to get texts in Spotify client. information found was not more than Ahk Window Spy.

Oh, I found the code for AHK Window Info pasted as spoiler at īut it did not help. so i could only use Ahk Window Spy 1.3.3 by Decarlo. Would looking into other processes help?ĪHK Window Info 1.7 ( ) is not available for download at moment. Is there a way to dig into this further? I noticed in the Windows Task Manager there are 3 spotify.exe instances. So, I tried to get all controllist and extract texts in each of them by following the example in this question: How to obtain textual contents from a windowīut, I could only find two controls ('Chrome_WidgetWin_01' and 'Chrome_RenderWidgetHostHWND1') and Window spy can find text 'Chrome Legacy Window' and this is all it finds. Only text Windows spy can find from the task bar icon is now 'Spotify Free'. The main problem is that the tray icon and the task bar icon stopped showing the currently played song information after this update.

This will give me 'Spotify free' no matter what song I am playing. StringTrimLeft, playing, now_playing, 10 WinGetTitle, now_playing, ahk_class SpotifyMainWindow I want to pull out the current track information from Spotify windows client using autohotkey.Īlthough this question Hotkey for next song in Spotify solved some of the problems (the media playback issues) in the commonly used ahk script (can be found in this question: Newest Spotify update: Autohotkeys script broke and below), the track info shortcut still does not work.

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