Spoty Widget

Shows the song you’re playing in a corner of the screen: album art, title, artist, time and a little equaliser. No more alt-tabbing to check what’s on.

No Spotify account. No API key. No login. The mod reads what the Spotify desktop app already reports to your system’s media controls.

Features

• 5 designs: Classic, Progress bar, Compact, Above hotbar and Vanilla tooltip. Switch with one button.
• Your layout: any corner, scale from 0.5x to 2x, adjustable offset and background opacity. Album art, timestamps and equaliser can each be turned off.
• Show it when you want: always, or for 5 or 15 seconds when a song starts and before it ends. It can also hide while paused or while a menu is open.
• Media keys in game: next and previous track, volume up and down, on the arrow keys by default. Change them in Options → Controls → Spoty Widget.
• Jukebox aware: when a record plays nearby, the widget shows the disc and Spotify pauses. Spotify resumes when the record ends.
• Other players too: set Player to “Any player” to also show browsers, VLC and more.

How it works

• Windows: reads the media session behind the volume flyout.
• Linux: reads the Spotify MPRIS player through gdbus or playerctl.
• Album art: looked up by artist and title on Deezer or iTunes. On Linux, Spotify provides the cover directly.
• Client side only: the mod never talks to the server you play on, so it works on any server.

Install

1. Download the jar for your loader and Minecraft version.
2. Put it in your mods folder.
3. Start Spotify, play something and launch the game.

| Loader | Needs |
|—|—|
| Fabric | Fabric API. Mod Menu is optional (settings screen) |
| Quilt | Use the Fabric jar, with Fabric API or QFAPI |
| NeoForge | Nothing extra. Settings: Mods → Spoty Widget → Config |
| Forge | Nothing extra. Settings: Mods → Spoty Widget → Config |

Minecraft 1.21 to 26.3. The jar suffix tells you which versions it covers:

+1.21.1 +1.21.3 +1.21.4 +1.21.5 +1.21.8 +1.21.10 +1.21.11 +26.1.2 +26.2 +26.3

Windows and Linux only. macOS is not supported.

Also available on CurseForge. Source code on GitHub.

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