Help with Opening Spotify and start playlist

[myran1178]

Hello everyone!
I dont know where in this forum this topic should be posted, so move it if it needs to move!
I am new to Macro Scheduler!(downloaded it yesterday. I am new if I havent used it before, with that, I mean I cant remember if I have used MS before!)
Now over to my question!
What I am , trying to do, is a macro that opens Spotify, clicks on a specific playlist in the left sidebar and plays the first song of the playlist, so now I wonder how to do this after I has been worked with it too many hours yesterday!
Help me!
Bye!
Edited 28th Oct 2020 7:55pm cet:
Finally finished my macro!

[Dorian (MJT support)]

Hi Ryan,

I downloaded Spotify so I could see what your challenges may be, and what works and what doesn't.

This is how I built the script at the bottom of this reply :

First I used Run to start Spotify.

Then we wait for the Spotify window to open with WaitWindowOpen, and Wait for a few seconds for the contents to load. There are more intelligent ways of waiting, but we can leave those for another day (see Image Recognition or UIAccessibleList - advanced)

Now we can use the Find Object Wizard to generate the button clicks.

I found that simply clicking the playlist was unsuccessful unless I just ran the UIClick lines straight from the editor with Spotify already open, and that we needed to use UIFocus first, wait for a moment, then click with UIClick.

Thus we end up with :

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//Run Spotify (you'll need to change the path)
run>C:\Users\xb360\AppData\Roaming\Spotify\Spotify.exe

//Wait for spotify to open and wait for contents to load
WaitWindowOpen>Spotify Free
Wait>10

//Focus your playlist (edit this)
UIFocus>{"Spotify Free"},{"PlayList Test"}
Wait>1

//Click on the playlist (edit this) and wait 
UIClick>{"Spotify Free"},{"PlayList Test"}
Wait>5

//Click play
UIClick>{"Spotify Free"},{"PAUSE"}

[myran1178]

I want it to work even if the bottom player is empty!

[Dorian (MJT support)]

Not being a Spotify user I really don't know what the bottom player refers to. Hopefully you're able to use my suggestions above as a starting point by familiarising yourself with the wizards and commands I outlined. They're merely suggestions to get you started.

[myran1178]

I was talking about this when I said Bottom player!
https://imgur.com/a/shEQjxv
Cant remember the real name of it so I called it the most logical name(the most logical name is Bottom player cause it is located to the bottom!)

[Dorian (MJT support)]

Try the Find Object Wizard as mentioned above, and if that fails use Image Recognition.

[myran1178]

I like everything of your code except the play section.
I tried to say that I want my macro to play the first song of playlist doesnt matter if bottom player is filled with something else i listened to recently or bottom player is empty. I think your method requires the bottom player
to be not empty cause it plays the most recent song, not the first song of playlist.

[Dorian (MJT support)]

Once you've clicked the playlist you should be able to use CTRL-Left Arrow to navigate up the list.

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SetFocus>Spotify Free*
press ctrl
press left *20
release ctrl

You can then press play. Use the Find Object Wizard I mentioned above to generate the code (or use Image Recognition)

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UIClick>{"Spotify Free"},{"Play"}

[myran1178]

How to create a message window that displays the name/title of active window?

[Dorian (MJT support)]

Check out GetActiveWindow and Messagemodal.

[myran1178]

I know but I wonder how to use the active window variable in the message!

[myran1178]

Found it out now!

[myran1178]

Help me with the lines that says "needs help":

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//NEEDS HELP WITH CREATING SHORTER AND FASTER MACRO
//🠗SAVING PREVIOUS ACTIVE WINDOW LINES 2-5 DONE🠗
GetActiveWindow>strTitle,nXPos,nYPos,,
Let>FörraFönstret=%strTitle%
GetWindowSize>%FörraFönstret%,nWidth,nHeight
GetWindowPos>%FörraFönstret%,nXPos,nYPos
//🠗OPENING SPOTIFY AND START THE FIRST SONG OF PLAYLIST LINES7-21 DONE🠗 
run>Spotify.exe
WaitWindowOpen>Spotify Premium
Wait>10
UIFocus>{"Spotify Premium"},{"Niall Horan – Flicker (Deluxe)"}
Wait>1
UIClick>{"Spotify Premium"},{"Niall Horan – Flicker (Deluxe)"}
Wait>5
UIFocus>{"Spotify Premium"},{"Niall Horan – Flicker (Deluxe)"}
Wait>1
UIClick>{"Spotify Premium"},{"On The Loose"}
SetFocus>Spotify*
UIClick>{"Spotify Premium"},{"SPELA UPP"}
press ctrl
press left *20
release ctrl
//🠗ASKING ME IF I WANT OR NOT WANT CONTINUE WHAT I DID BEFORE THIS STARTED. IF YES, RE ACTIVATE PREVIOUS ACTIVE WINDOW.
//DONE LINES 24-29🠗
Ask>Vill du fortsätta med det du gjorde innan Spotify?,strResponse
If>%strResponse% = "Yes"
WindowAction>2,Niall Horan - On The Loose
SetFocus>%FörraFönstret%
MoveWindow>%FörraFönstret%,%nXPos%,%nYPos%
ResizeWindow>%FörraFönstret%,%nWidth%,%nHeight%
//🠗IF I CLICKED NO, REACTIVATE SPOTIFY AGAIN AND MAXIMIZE SPOTIFY. NEEDS HELP WITH THIS LINES 31-54🠗
Else
// C:\Users\Miranda\AppData\Local\Temp\msrFBE6.scp
// Recorded on  lördag, oktober 24, 2020, at 05:12 PM

//Recorded Events
Let>WW_TIMEOUT=5
CapsOn
MouseMove>485,749
Wait>1.613
//Clicking on: 
//SnapShotFile>%BMP_DIR%snapshot_32.png
Wait>1.531
LClick
Wait>0.282
//Activating Window: 
//SnapShotFile>%BMP_DIR%snapshot_33.png
WaitWindowOpen>Spotify Premium
MoveWindow>Spotify Premium,486,112
ResizeWindow>Spotify Premium,800,600
Wait>2.937
SetFocus>Niall Horan - On The Loose
MouseMoveRel>1219,127
Wait>8.959
LClick

SCREENSHOT SHOWING SnapShotFile>%BMP_DIR%snapshot_32.png AND SnapShotFile>%BMP_DIR%snapshot_33.png:
https://imgur.com/a/j9m5QNe

[Dorian (MJT support)]

If you mean making it faster, simply trim those recorded Waits down near the bottom.

Also this needs editing :

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If>%strResponse%=YES

[myran1178]

Help me also with the part under the last code comment