SpotMenu crashes Spotify on macOS 10.14 Mojave Beta

[JacobKingDev]

Prerequisites

• macOS 10.14 Mojave Beta
• Spotify
• SpotMenu

Description

Having SpotMenu and Spotify launched at the same time causes Spotify to crash. In the event that SpotMenu is open first, Spotify simply won't launch and crashes every time you try and open it. In the case that Spotify is open first, opening SpotMenu crashes Spotify.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Install both programs on macOS Mojave.
2. Open one of them (either is fine, see above).
3. Open the other.

Expected behavior: No crash, SpotMenu works as expected.

Actual behavior: Spotify crashes.

Reproduces how often: 100% of the time.

Versions

SpotMenu version: 1.8.0
MacOS version: 10.14 Mojave Developer Beta 1

Additional Information

None

[kmikiy]

Could you try running these apple scripts and check if they crash Spotify?

tell application "Spotify" to get artist of current track

tell application "Spotify" to get name of current track

This can be done from the Script Editor.app. Copy&Paste the snippet and press play.

[harryyoud]

These run fine for me here (on Mojave 10.14 Mojave Beta, Spotify version 1.0.82.447.g975ad224 and SpotMenu version 1.8.0), but SpotMenu Edit: Spotify still crashes. Screenshots attached


Please let me know if you want anymore details/debugging/logs

[kmikiy]

do you guys have the same issue? SpotMenu crashes Spotify, right?

[harryyoud]

Apologies, I meant to say Spotify crashed. We have exactly the same symptoms. Running Spotify in a terminal shows the executable crashes with Segmentation fault: 11. I also have a dtruss trace of the Spotify binary if you'd like it

[harryyoud]

After quite a few repeated launches, I managed to get Spotify to launch fairly inconsistently (perhaps 1 in 5 runs or so)

I have a Spotify logs for both a failure and success case if you'd like them, but I'd much prefer to give you these privately given the possibility of tokens or other personal info present

[kmikiy]

yeah, if you could send it that would be nice. my email is m.kristyan@gmail.com
i'll also try to install mojave on a virtual machine, but i think my computer won't be able to handle it.

[kmikiy]

I have set up a virtual machine (works pretty poorly though). I checked other similar apps (e.g. https://github.com/paulyoung/Statusfy) and they also cause Spotify to crash. 😕 I think for some reason the Apple Script API calls cause Spotify to crash, iTunes Apple Script API calls work fine though. I still haven't figured out what the problem is.

[JacobKingDev]

Thanks for your quick investigation @kmikiy. If it's not a glaringly obvious issue it may be worth waiting until the GM for Mojave is made available, as weird quirks have a habit of mysteriously disappearing in later betas... Not only that, but if iTunes works fine, it could be an issue for the Spotify devs (not that they'll be particularly eager to fix issues for 3rd party integrations). Otherwise, it could be an entitlement based permission hence Apple app working fine but Spotify not.

[JacobKingDev]

Or potentially, a user issue. Who does SpotMenu execute the AppleScript as? Could be that it needs to come from the current user.

[Nayuta-Kani]

Hmmm, for me Spotify does not crash though, might be due to the fact I enabled Spotify for "Application Data" and "Accessibility" manually by adding it to the list in Settings > Security & Privacy

[harryyoud]

Can confirm this seems to be fixed on Developer Preview 2. I was also asked if I would "Allow SpotMenu to communicate with Spotify" on the first boot after the update, which I haven't seen before. After that, Spotify doesn't seem to crash anymore

[abustamam]

Just confirming that I just installed SpotMenu for the first time on Mojave (official release) and it works without any hitches. I did see the "Allow SpotMenu to communicate with Spotify" message, but works without a hitch.

[LosOmatic]

I can also confirm no hitches, glitches, or issues. works perfect on my machine.
[2017 iMac | Mojave ]

Just confirming that I just installed SpotMenu for the first time on Mojave (official release) and it works without any hitches. I did see the "Allow SpotMenu to communicate with Spotify" message, but works without a hitch.

[Hum4n01d]

Close issue?

[jacas]

Just installed SpotMenu and works fine on Mojave. Thank you!