This app exists to perform a single task - listen for play state changes from Spotify and forward them to macOS notification center.

In simpler terms, get a notification whenever a new song starts playing on Spotify, complete with track information and album artwork.

Spotify users have been asking for desktop notification support on macOS since 2012.

But despite the simplicity of the task at hand (15-20 lines max to send a notification to macOS Notification Center)... Spotify has yet to implement support for this much-requested feature. 😭

The source can be found on the primary host - doom.fm. It is also mirrored to GitHub.

If you encounter a bug and would like to file an issue, please open a new one on the GitHub repository.

Spotify Notifications is only distributed for macOS 10.12+. You will need Spotify already installed (it is not bundled with or managed by Spotify Notifications).

When running the app for the first time, macOS may prompt you to allow Spotify Notifications to control Spotify.

In order for Spotify Notifications to request state updates from Spotify (so that it can forward them to macOS Notification Center), you'll need to allow Spotify Notifications to control Spotify.

Nope, none at all! We don't phone home, track usage, etc. Absolutely nada.

Some, to a certain extent — album artwork and the Last.fm integration require Internet access.