SketchyBar media.lua relies on nowplaying-cli -> Broken in macOS >= 15.4

[miloswrath]

SketchyBar configs for media.lua uses the nowplaying-cli brew application which only returns null after Apple privatized their public now-playing cli in 15.4 and above. I tried using applescript to solve this issue but my attempts are limited by my ineptitude.

Placing this issue here just in case someone smarter than me can figure this out, below is the media.lua i am using form dots

local colors = require("colors")

local whitelist = { ["Spotify"] = true,
                    ["Music"] = true    };

local media_cover = sbar.add("item", {
  position = "right",
  background = {
    image = {
      string = "media.artwork",
      scale = 0.85,
    },
    color = colors.transparent,
  },
  label = { drawing = false },
  icon = { drawing = false },
  drawing = false,
  updates = true,
  popup = {
    align = "center",
    horizontal = true,
  }
})

local media_artist = sbar.add("item", {
  position = "right",
  drawing = false,
  padding_left = 3,
  padding_right = 0,
  width = 0,
  icon = { drawing = false },
  label = {
    width = 0,
    font = { size = 9 },
    color = colors.with_alpha(colors.white, 0.6),
    max_chars = 18,
    y_offset = 6,
  },
})

local media_title = sbar.add("item", {
  position = "right",
  drawing = false,
  padding_left = 3,
  padding_right = 0,
  icon = { drawing = false },
  label = {
    font = { size = 11 },
    width = 0,
    max_chars = 16,
    y_offset = -5,
  },
})

sbar.add("item", {
  position = "popup." .. media_cover.name,
  icon = { string = icons.media.back },
  label = { drawing = false },
  click_script = "nowplaying-cli previous",
})
sbar.add("item", {
  position = "popup." .. media_cover.name,
  icon = { string = icons.media.play_pause },
  label = { drawing = false },
  click_script = "nowplaying-cli togglePlayPause",
})
sbar.add("item", {
  position = "popup." .. media_cover.name,
  icon = { string = icons.media.forward },
  label = { drawing = false },
  click_script = "nowplaying-cli next",
})

local interrupt = 0
local function animate_detail(detail)
  if (not detail) then interrupt = interrupt - 1 end
  if interrupt > 0 and (not detail) then return end

  sbar.animate("tanh", 30, function()
    media_artist:set({ label = { width = detail and "dynamic" or 0 } })
    media_title:set({ label = { width = detail and "dynamic" or 0 } })
  end)
end

media_cover:subscribe("media_change", function(env)
  if whitelist[env.INFO.app] then
    local drawing = (env.INFO.state == "playing")
    media_artist:set({ drawing = drawing, label = env.INFO.artist, })
    media_title:set({ drawing = drawing, label = env.INFO.title, })
    media_cover:set({ drawing = drawing })

    if drawing then
      animate_detail(true)
      interrupt = interrupt + 1
      sbar.delay(5, animate_detail)
    else
      media_cover:set({ popup = { drawing = false } })
    end
  end
end)

media_cover:subscribe("mouse.entered", function(env)
  interrupt = interrupt + 1
  animate_detail(true)
end)

media_cover:subscribe("mouse.exited", function(env)
  animate_detail(false)
end)

media_cover:subscribe("mouse.clicked", function(env)
  media_cover:set({ popup = { drawing = "toggle" }})
end)

media_title:subscribe("mouse.exited.global", function(env)
  media_cover:set({ popup = { drawing = false }})
end)

[polskiTran]

still an issues in Mac OS 15.5