Can someone volunteer to make a installation guide for those who are not experienced with programming so that will be the go-to on how to use this script.

There is limit on number of requests to spotify api and since the program sends one every sec so its quite easy to exhaust it in a long music session which will break the script. We can reduce that one way. Since after a restart its quite certain that there won't be any ad for some time so we can make the detection program sleep for a few min after a restart as we are certain there won't be any ad any time soon. This would somewhat reduce the number of request. What you guys think?

I tried to use PyInstaller to create an exe file from main.py, and it works fine on my main computer that has Python installed, but on my other computer which doesn't have it installed, it gives me the "pip3 not recognized" error. Is there any possible way we could bundle the python3 interpreter with the main.py file in an exe? It would make it a lot more accessible for non computer geeks.

Whenever I attempt to run the code I get this error: TypeError: expected str, bytes or os.PathLike object, not NoneType.
I run it as follows:

$ cd C:\Users\me\SpotiByeAds

$ py main.py Found previously used credentials. Want to use them again? (Y/n) Y

Awesome, that's all I needed. I'm watching for ads now <.< SUCCESS: The process "Spotify.exe" with PID 12680 has been terminated. SUCCESS: The process "Spotify.exe" with PID 23276 has been terminated. SUCCESS: The process "Spotify.exe" with PID 25124 has been terminated. SUCCESS: The process "Spotify.exe" with PID 11972 has been terminated. SUCCESS: The process "Spotify.exe" with PID 20088 has been terminated. SUCCESS: The process "Spotify.exe" with PID 13544 has been terminated. Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\me\SpotiByeAds\main.py", line 128, in main(spotify_username, spotifyAccessScope, spotify_client_id, spotify_client_secret, spotifyRedirectURI, PATH) File "C:\Users\me\SpotiByeAds\main.py", line 65, in main restartSpotify(path) File "C:\Users\me\SpotiByeAds\main.py", line 52, in restartSpotify openSpotify(path) File "C:\Users\me\SpotiByeAds\main.py", line 37, in openSpotify subprocess.Popen([path], start_new_session=True, stdout=subprocess.DEVNULL, stderr=subprocess.DEVNULL, shell=True) File "C:\Users\me\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\subprocess.py", line 951, in init self._execute_child(args, executable, preexec_fn, close_fds, File "C:\Users\me\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\subprocess.py", line 1360, in _execute_child args = list2cmdline(args) File "C:\Users\me\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\subprocess.py", line 565, in list2cmdline for arg in map(os.fsdecode, seq): File "C:\Users\me\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\os.py", line 822, in fsdecode filename = fspath(filename) # Does type-checking of filename. TypeError: expected str, bytes or os.PathLike object, not NoneType`

Instead of pinging Spotify every second just to check if an ad is playing. We can simply get the song length and wait that amount of time and then check if an ad is playing

(#44)

• Reduced number of requests sent (actually just solved #44).
  • Note that it's possible for ads to be played when the user skips a track.
• Fixed crashes on connection errors.
• Tested and works on both Windows and Linux.
• Fixed #52 introduced by #48.

• Failure in Dependency installation was leading to an infinite loop.
• Improper platform names were being used.
• PID was previously hard-coded, but it's never constant.

I was a bit bored today and saw your post on Reddit, so I thought that I'd contribute a bit. This pull request adds a few things.

• .gitignore - File for telling git to ignore Python junk like __pycache__ and also the user's spotipy cache file which contains credentials
• requirements.txt - File containing the project requirements. This makes it easier for the user to install requirements, since they only have to type pip3 install -r requirements.txt to install all project requirements.
• Dynamic spotify path detection. I used shutil.which() to automatically detect the spotify file location in the PATH. I still left your path variable, however, so that users can manually override this system.
• Linux support. I use Linux, so to test the rest of the stuff I had to go ahead and add Linux support. Also, I like things to support more than just Windows in general, so I figured that I'd help out.

I'd definitely recommend testing this before merging it, as I haven't tested this on Windows. Other than that, feel free to ask me any questions.

[Documentation] Could the main README briefly explain how this is detected via the python code?

Does not have to be a long explanation, just the main gist of how it works. That way people can understand which part notices when an ad is played. For instance I presently don't know the spotify API so this would be helpful. Thank you for potentially considering and reading this issue request.

I suggest that the user be asked to enter a passphrase of at least 8 ASCII (to reduce complexity) characters. Then that can be used to encrypt the client secret when storing it and to decrypt it when reading it.

A simple cipher can be used, i'll say the XOR (maybe with a little extra like a random number) is ok... cracking the cipher with such key length will be quite a pain :)

An error was raised by line 71 (time.sleep((spotify.current_user_playing_track['duration_ms']/1000) - 6) #Stop us from getting rate limited from spotify API (It just waits for the song to end)). A quick Google search showed the fix was to replace the brackets in spotify.current_user_playing_track['duration_ms'] with parenthesis. I'll create a PR for it.

Hi, I'm using MacOS and it doesn't block ads. OS: Mac OS error:

killall: unknown signal r; valid signals:
HUP INT QUIT ILL TRAP ABRT EMT FPE KILL BUS SEGV SYS PIPE ALRM TERM URG STOP 
TSTP CONT CHLD TTIN TTOU IO XCPU XFSZ VTALRM PROF WINCH INFO USR1 USR2 

did exactly what readme says and prompt says: Awesome, that's all I needed. I'm watching for ads now <.<

but when spoti AD kicks in, nothing happens....is this a sca m?

Edit: So I'm having 2 different spoti accounts, but this is more wired because when I sign in develop with 2nd account which I currently listening to, the main.py console will close immediately after I enter my password, the message was lighting fast that I will never be able to read....any advice? thanks!

I was experimenting with moving the documentation from the Read The Docs Sphinx theme to the Press Sphinx theme. You can compare them at https://spotibyeads.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ and https://spotibyeads.readthedocs.io/en/press-theme/ respectively. My personal opinion is that the press theme looks nicer, but since I have to manually scale the images (as compared to the automatic scaling on the RTD theme), the images are too small on high-resolution displays and too big on mobile and low-resolution displays. They only look as intended on a 1080p desktop monitor, which I think most people will use, but it's still something to consider.

I think we should make a separate thread since this is a common request. We have a way to use py2app for Mac, but my attempts with pyinstaller and cxfreeze on windows have been unsuccessful. Has anyone else built outside of Mac?

When running on manjaro the program doesn't close spotify. It still opens a new window tho. There for ads aren't skipped. Specs:

OS: Manjaro Linux x86_64 
Kernel: 5.10.53-1-MANJARO 
Shell: bash 5.1.8 
WM: i3 
Terminal: kitty 
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X (16) @ 3.600GHz 
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 
Memory: 2875MiB / 15990MiB