Minimalist: A clean and intuitive touchbar preset (Catalina update)

Great to know you're loving it!

Hi tmxgkh this is exactly what I was looking for : thank you very much !

David

Hey tmxgkh!

First of all - thank you very much for the preset, for me it's the best base I've found here.

Though, I've got a question relating the itunes "currently playing track" widget - is there a chance to code so it has an option to switch to next track? I'm pretty much sure you know how to do it :slight_smile:

Or maybe anybody is able to help me out?

Thank you in advance!

Best,
Roman

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Hey @Ro_your_bro, I'm not exactly sure if this is what you mean. But you could try switching the Predefined Action to Next.

See if this solves your issue, and let me know!

Yes, bro, that's exactly what I need (turned out to be so simple, lol), BUT, I need "Play/pause" button as well. So, perfectly, it would be like if a long tap runs "Next" button and a simple tap runs "Play/pause" as it is now. Is there a chance to code something like this? :slight_smile:

Thanks!

Tried to make this but it's not working :frowning:

Hey @Ro_your_bro, this preset should have already included the Play button which looks like this:

Just to check if the new update of BTT might have wonked out some the presets, check to see if the settings of the Now Playing Widget has the same settings as mine:

In my preset, my long press is coded to launch the Spotify app.

Let me know if the above solves your problem. Your touchbar should look like this at default:

When a song is played on Spotify:

Love the app. Works really well. Only issue is volume/brightness swipes aren't working for me. Any suggestions?

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Hi @William_Edmonds, glad you're enjoying it! This seems to be a recurring problem with some users, I suggest you delete them and re-add the gestures, it should work :slight_smile:

Hi! I love the preset thank you so much for making it. Pardon if that has been answered, I couldn't find it. Basically here's my problem:

Every time I quit Spotify or iTunes, the application automatically reopens. If I make the Spotify: Play/Pause: Script the problem goes away, so it must be having to do with that.

This is what it looks like FWIW:

if application "Spotify" is running then
tell application "Spotify"
if player state is playing then return "pause"
end tell
end if

if application "iTunes" is running then
tell application "iTunes"
if player state is playing then return "pause"
end tell
end if

return "play"

Help! Thank you!!!!

Actually, maybe I've fixed it? I edited the script adding "try" and "end try" and it seems to be working!

if application "Spotify" is running then
tell application "Spotify"
try
if player state is playing then return "pause"
end try
end tell
end if

if application "iTunes" is running then
tell application "iTunes"
try
if player state is playing then return "pause"
end try
end tell
end if

return "play"

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Hey Daniel, so sorry for the late reply man!
Wasn't really keeping track with the notifications here for a while. Glad you found solution and that you're liking this preset. Thanks for the solution! I'll add it to the next update, cheers!

Thanks for this preset. Can you change this white long line, who shown while i tried to change brightness with three fingers?

More in this video https://streamable.com/76joo

Hi!

I came up with a double-tap solution:

https://community.folivora.ai/t/double-tap-scripting/9348

Let me know how it works for you,
J

Hey love the work man! This preset has been immensely useful.

I was wondering: is it possible to extend the "touch zone" for the "Now Playing" widget, so that it automatically fills the available space on the touchbar (i.e. past the song title + artist name)? I've found that it's kinda hard to develop muscle memory for that button since its "touch zone" is changing with the length of the song title + artist.

Best!

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Hi Piteriuz, I'm afraid I can't get rid the white line in the gesture system as it seems to be no setting to change it, perhaps @Andreas_Hegenberg can chime in with some help?

Hey Caleb! Glad you're finding this preset helpful too! I understand the "touch zone" issue because it apparently changes with the length of the song. There seem to be no setting to fix the length of the widget.

@Andreas_Hegenberg is there a way to fix the length of the widget?

Hi @movingimage, the double tap script is pretty cool. But you cannot integrate to a widget right? It seems to be only available as a separate button.

First off, great preset have been using if for a while now and could never go back.

1 small issue and 1 small suggestion.

Issue is, now playing on Spotify sometimes disappears when controlling external devices, ie listening through an amazon echo or spotify tv app and controlling it from my MacBook. Sometimes its flawless, other times it just goes away, a restart of BTT usually fixes it, or toggling listening of back to the MacBook then back to a external speaker.

My small suggestion would be with the battery remaining (percentage and time remaining) I don't need both most of the time as I like a clean look, would there be anyway to get it to cycle through them both? So say 3/4 seconds showing percentage then maybe a transition then 3/4 showing time remaining?

Anyway, 95% of the time I have no issues whatsoever so thank you for creating a great preset :slight_smile:

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