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spotify_monitor release notes

This is a high-level summary of the most important changes.

Changes in 1.7 (03 Nov 2024)

Features and Improvements:

  • NEW: Support for YouTube Music search URLs

Changes in 1.6 (15 Jun 2024)

Features and Improvements:

  • NEW: Added new parameter (-z / --send_test_email_notification) which allows to send test email notification to verify SMTP settings defined in the script
  • IMPROVE: Possibility to define email sending timeout (default set to 15 secs)

Bug fixes:

  • BUGFIX: Fixed "SyntaxError: f-string: unmatched (" issue in older Python versions
  • BUGFIX: Fixed "SyntaxError: f-string expression part cannot include a backslash" issue in older Python versions

Changes in 1.5 (07 Jun 2024)

Features and Improvements:

  • NEW: Added new signal handler for SIGPIPE allowing to switch songs on loop email notifications
  • IMPROVE: Better way of checking for error strings (without case sensitivity) + some additional ones added to the list
  • NEW: Support for float type of timestamps added in date/time related functions + get_short_date_from_ts() rewritten to display year if show_year == True and current year is different, also can omit displaying hour and minutes if show_hours == False

Bug fixes:

  • BUGFIX: Escaping of exception error string fixed + some unbound vars corrected

Changes in 1.4 (24 May 2024)

Features and Improvements:

  • NEW: Possibility to define output log file name suffix (-y / --log_file_suffix)
  • NEW: Feature allowing to suppress repeating API or network related errors (check ERROR_500_NUMBER_LIMIT, ERROR_500_TIME_LIMIT, ERROR_NETWORK_ISSUES_NUMBER_LIMIT and ERROR_NETWORK_ISSUES_TIME_LIMIT variables)
  • IMPROVE: Information about log file name visible in the start screen
  • IMPROVE: Rewritten get_date_from_ts(), get_short_date_from_ts(), get_hour_min_from_ts() and get_range_of_dates_from_tss() functions to automatically detect if time object is timestamp or datetime

Bug fixes:

  • BUGFIX: Fixed issues with sporadic broken links in HTML emails (vars with special characters are now escaped properly)

Changes in 1.3 (18 May 2024)

Features and Improvements:

  • NEW: Full support for real-time playing of tracked songs (-g) in Spotify client in Linux
  • NEW: Rewritten code for playing tracked songs (-g) in Spotify client in macOS
  • NEW: New way of playing tracked songs (-g) in Spotify client in Windows
  • IMPROVE: Improvements for running the code in Python under Windows
  • IMPROVE: Better checking for wrong command line arguments
  • IMPROVE: pep8 style convention corrections

Bug fixes:

  • BUGFIX: Improved exception handling for some functions

Changes in 1.2 (07 May 2024)

Features and Improvements:

  • NEW: Possibility to define SP_DC_COOKIE via command line argument (-u / --spotify_dc_cookie)
  • IMPROVE: SPOTIFY_ACTIVITY_CHECK and -p / --online_timer parameter have been removed as it only complicated the code with no visible benefit; SPOTIFY_INACTIVITY_CHECK is used in all places now, so user is considered active if the time of last activity is <= SPOTIFY_INACTIVITY_CHECK
  • IMPROVE: Email sending function send_email() has been rewritten to detect invalid SMTP settings
  • IMPROVE: Strings have been converted to f-strings for better code visibility
  • IMPROVE: Info about CSV file name in the start screen

Changes in 1.1 (30 Apr 2024)

Features and Improvements:

  • NEW: Support for detection of songs listened on loop; if user plays the same song consecutively SONG_ON_LOOP_VALUE times (3 by default, configurable in the .py file) then there will be proper message on the console + you can get email notification (new -x / --song_on_loop_notification parameter); the alarm is triggered only once, when the SONG_ON_LOOP_VALUE is reached and once the user changes the song the timer is zeroed
  • NEW: Feature to detect skipped songs; if the user plays the song for <= SKIPPED_SONG_THRESHOLD (0.6 by default = 60%, configurable in the .py file) of track duration, then the song is treated as skipped with proper message on the console & email notifications
  • NEW: Information about number of listened songs in the session (console + notification emails)
  • IMPROVE: Adding info about Artist and Album context of listened songs to notification emails
  • IMPROVE: Adding info about Artist and Album context URLs in the console & email notifications
  • IMPROVE: Information about readjusting session start due to too low inactivity timer is also in the notification email now

Changes in 1.0 (23 Apr 2024)

Features and Improvements:

  • NEW: Support for detecting Artist context of listened songs
  • IMPROVE: Additional search/replace strings to sanitize tracks for Genius URLs

Bug fixes:

  • BUGFIX: Fix for "SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\d'" in regexps