Spotify update breaking other plasmoids on KDE

[EBro912]

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ℹ Environment / Computer Info

- Spotify version: CachyOS Linux v1.2.84.476.ga1ff6607
- Spicetify version: 2.42.14

📝 Description

As of the latest Spotify update, running Spicetify on top of it breaks other KDE Plasmoids that hook into Spotify. The main two I am affected by are NowPlaying and plasmoid-spotify.

Examples of this behavior can be seen below. The two plasmoids I mentioned include the "Now Playing" bar at the top and the lyrics section underneath the visualizer.

With Spicetify (spicetify apply):

When Paused, the plasmoid shows the current playlist.
When Playing, the plasmoid shows the title and artist as the title, and no lyrics are detected.

Without Spicetify (spicetify restore):

When Paused, the plasmoid shows the current title and artist as expected.
When Playing, the title and artist are kept and the lyrics are displayed as expected.

It should also be noted I don't have any Extensions or Apps installed that mess with the lyrics or song metadata, I have the text theme installed alongside a simple custom CSS for progress bar smoothing.

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[rxri]

We do not support any modifications that you use alongside spicetify. This is not going to be something that will be fixed - I’m pretty sure it’s not even spicetify’s fault

[EBro912]

"I’m pretty sure it’s not even spicetify’s fault"

This only happens when Spicetify is applied, as explained above. With a stock Spotify, as shown by my screenshots, the Plasmoids receive the correct metadata. I understand that you do not support modifications, however flat out stating it's not Spicetify's fault when this only happens with Spicetify installed doesn't seem right to me.

This also only started happening after yesterday's Spotify update. Before then this issue didn't occur and Spicetify ran alongside them fine.

[rxri]

From what I understand, it just looks for Spotify and what Spotify exposes. We do not modify the native side of Spotify so this has nothing to do with us. This is yet another spotify bug that spicetify somehow triggers. Besides, spicetify for Linux is provided as is since v2.42.10