v1.7

Features and Improvements:

• NEW: Support for YouTube Music search URLs

v1.6

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

v1.5

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

v1.4

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)

v1.3

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

v1.2

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

v1.1

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

v1.0

Initial spotify_monitor v1.0 release. Features:

• Real-time monitoring of songs listened by Spotify friend (including detection when user gets online & offline)
• Information about how long the user listened to a song
• Information about context of listened song (playlist/artist/album) with clickable URLs
• Email notifications for different events (user gets active/inactive, specific/all songs, errors)
• Saving all listened songs with timestamps to the CSV file
• Clickable Apple Music and Genius Lyrics search URLs printed in the console & included in email notifications
• Showing basic statistics for user's playing session (how long, time span)
• Possibility to control the running copy of the script via signals

RELEASE NOTES:

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