use Electron with ToastXML instead of SnoreToast

* Add support for protocol commands
* Remove node-notifier dependency

config/defaults.js

@@ -55,7 +55,8 @@ const defaultConfig = {
 			enabled: false,
 			unpauseNotification: false,
 			urgency: "normal", //has effect only on Linux 
-			interactive: false //has effect only on Windows
+			interactive: true, //has effect only on Windows
+			smallInteractive: false //has effect only on Windows
 		},
 		"precise-volume": {
 			enabled: false,

index.js

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ const { isTesting } = require("./utils/testing");
 const { setUpTray } = require("./tray");
 const { setupSongInfo } = require("./providers/song-info");
 const { setupAppControls, restart } = require("./providers/app-controls");
+const { APP_PROTOCOL, setupProtocolHandler, handleProtocol } = require("./providers/protocol-handler");
 
 // Catch errors and log them
 unhandled({
@@ -29,17 +30,9 @@ const app = electron.app;
 let mainWindow;
 autoUpdater.autoDownload = false;
 
-if(config.get("options.singleInstanceLock")){
-	const gotTheLock = app.requestSingleInstanceLock();
-	if (!gotTheLock) app.quit();
 
-	app.on('second-instance', () => {
-		if (!mainWindow) return;
-		if (mainWindow.isMinimized()) mainWindow.restore();
-		if (!mainWindow.isVisible()) mainWindow.show();
-		mainWindow.focus();
-	});
-}
+const gotTheLock = app.requestSingleInstanceLock();
+if (!gotTheLock) app.quit();
 
 app.commandLine.appendSwitch(
 	"js-flags",
@@ -363,9 +356,6 @@ app.on("ready", () => {
 
 	// Register appID on windows
 	if (is.windows()) {
-		// Depends on SnoreToast version https://github.com/KDE/snoretoast/blob/master/CMakeLists.txt#L5
-		const toastActivatorClsid = "eb1fdd5b-8f70-4b5a-b230-998a2dc19303";
-
 		const appID = "com.github.th-ch.youtube-music";
 		app.setAppUserModelId(appID);
 		const appLocation = process.execPath;
@@ -391,7 +381,6 @@ app.on("ready", () => {
 						cwd: path.dirname(appLocation),
 						description: "YouTube Music Desktop App - including custom plugins",
 						appUserModelId: appID,
-						toastActivatorClsid
 					}
 				);
 			}
@@ -402,6 +391,23 @@ app.on("ready", () => {
 	setApplicationMenu(mainWindow);
 	setUpTray(app, mainWindow);
 
+	setupProtocolHandler(mainWindow);
+
+	app.on('second-instance', (_event, commandLine, _workingDirectory) => {
+		const uri = `${APP_PROTOCOL}://`;
+		const protocolArgv = commandLine.find(arg => arg.startsWith(uri));
+		if (protocolArgv) {
+			const command = protocolArgv.slice(uri.length, -1);
+			if (is.dev()) console.debug(`Received command over protocol: "${command}"`);
+			handleProtocol(command);
+			return;
+		}
+		if (!mainWindow) return;
+		if (mainWindow.isMinimized()) mainWindow.restore();
+		if (!mainWindow.isVisible()) mainWindow.show();
+		mainWindow.focus();
+	});
+
 	// Autostart at login
 	app.setLoginItemSettings({
 		openAtLogin: config.get("options.startAtLogin"),

menu.js

@@ -131,16 +131,14 @@ const mainMenuTemplate = (win) => {
 					],
 				},
 				{
-					label: "Single instance lock",
+					label: "Release single instance lock",
 					type: "checkbox",
-					checked: config.get("options.singleInstanceLock"),
+					checked: false,
 					click: (item) => {
-						config.setMenuOption("options.singleInstanceLock", item.checked);
-						if (item.checked && !app.hasSingleInstanceLock()) {
-							app.requestSingleInstanceLock();
-						} else if (!item.checked && app.hasSingleInstanceLock()) {
+						if (item.checked && app.hasSingleInstanceLock())
 							app.releaseSingleInstanceLock();
-						}
+						else if (!item.checked && !app.hasSingleInstanceLock())
+							app.requestSingleInstanceLock();
 					},
 				},
 				{

package.json

@@ -116,7 +116,6 @@
 		"md5": "^2.3.0",
 		"mpris-service": "^2.1.2",
 		"node-fetch": "^2.6.7",
-		"node-notifier": "^10.0.1",
 		"ytdl-core": "^4.11.1",
 		"ytpl": "^2.3.0"
 	},

plugins/notifications/back.js

@@ -39,6 +39,6 @@ const setup = (options) => {
 module.exports = (win, options) => {
 	// Register the callback for new song information
 	is.windows() && options.interactive ?
-		require("./interactive")(win, options.unpauseNotification) :
+		require("./interactive")(win, options) :
 		setup(options);
 };

plugins/notifications/interactive.js

@@ -1,106 +1,91 @@
 const { notificationImage, icons } = require("./utils");
 const getSongControls = require('../../providers/song-controls');
 const registerCallback = require("../../providers/song-info");
-const is = require("electron-is");
-const WindowsToaster = require('node-notifier').WindowsToaster;
+const { changeProtocolHandler } = require("../../providers/protocol-handler");
 
-const notifier = new WindowsToaster({ withFallback: true });
+const { Notification } = require("electron");
+const path = require('path');
 
-//store song controls reference on launch
-let controls;
-let notificationOnUnpause;
+let songControls;
+let config;
+let savedNotification;
 
-module.exports = (win, unpauseNotification) => {
-    //Save controls and onPause option
-    const { playPause, next, previous } = getSongControls(win);
-    controls = { playPause, next, previous };
-    notificationOnUnpause = unpauseNotification;
+module.exports = (win, _config) => {
+    songControls = getSongControls(win);
+    config = _config;
 
-    let currentUrl;
+    let lastSongInfo = { url: undefined };
 
     // Register songInfoCallback
-    registerCallback(songInfo => {
-        if (!songInfo.isPaused && (songInfo.url !== currentUrl || notificationOnUnpause)) {
-            currentUrl = songInfo.url;
-            sendToaster(songInfo);
+    registerCallback((songInfo, cause) => {
+        if (!songInfo.isPaused && (songInfo.url !== lastSongInfo.url || config.unpauseNotification)) {
+            lastSongInfo = { ...songInfo };
+            sendXML(songInfo);
         }
     });
 
     win.webContents.once("closed", () => {
-        deleteNotification()
+        savedNotification = undefined;
     });
-}
 
-//delete old notification
-let toDelete;
-function deleteNotification() {
-    if (toDelete !== undefined) {
-        // To remove the notification it has to be done this way
-        const removeNotif = Object.assign(toDelete, {
-            remove: toDelete.id
-        })
-        notifier.notify(removeNotif)
-
-        toDelete = undefined;
-    }
-}
-
-//New notification
-function sendToaster(songInfo) {
-    deleteNotification();
-    //download image and get path
-    let imgSrc = notificationImage(songInfo, true);
-    toDelete = {
-        appID: "com.github.th-ch.youtube-music",
-        title: songInfo.title || "Playing",
-        message: songInfo.artist,
-        id: parseInt(Math.random() * 1000000, 10),
-        icon: imgSrc,
-        actions: [
-            icons.previous,
-            songInfo.isPaused ? icons.play : icons.pause,
-            icons.next
-        ],
-        sound: false,
-    };
-    //send notification
-    notifier.notify(
-        toDelete,
-        (err, data) => {
-            // Will also wait until notification is closed.
-            if (err) {
-                console.log(`ERROR = ${err.toString()}\n DATA = ${data}`);
-            }
-            switch (data) {
-                //buttons
-                case icons.previous.normalize():
-                    controls.previous();
-                    return;
-                case icons.next.normalize():
-                    controls.next();
-                    return;
-                case icons.play.normalize():
-                    controls.playPause();
-                    // dont delete notification on play/pause
-                    toDelete = undefined;
-                    //manually send notification if not sending automatically
-                    if (!notificationOnUnpause) {
-                        songInfo.isPaused = false;
-                        sendToaster(songInfo);
-                    }
-                    return;
-                case icons.pause.normalize():
-                    controls.playPause();
-                    songInfo.isPaused = true;
-                    toDelete = undefined;
-                    sendToaster(songInfo);
-                    return;
-                //Native datatype
-                case "dismissed":
-                case "timeout":
-                    deleteNotification();
+    changeProtocolHandler(
+        (cmd) => {
+            if (Object.keys(songControls).includes(cmd)) {
+                songControls[cmd]();
+                if (cmd === 'pause' || (cmd === 'play' && !config.unpauseNotification)) {
+                    setImmediate(() => 
+                        sendXML({ ...lastSongInfo, isPaused: cmd === 'pause' })
+                    );
+                }
             }
         }
-
-    );
+    )
 }
+
+
+function sendXML(songInfo) {
+    const imgSrc = notificationImage(songInfo, true);
+
+    savedNotification?.close();
+
+    savedNotification = new Notification({
+			title: songInfo.title || "Playing",
+			body: songInfo.artist,
+			icon: imgSrc,
+			silent: true,
+            // https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/uwp/schemas/tiles/toastschema/schema-root
+            // https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/design/shell/tiles-and-notifications/adaptive-interactive-toasts?tabs=xml
+            // https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/uwp/api/windows.ui.notifications.toasttemplatetype
+			toastXml: `
+                <toast useButtonStyles="true">
+                    <audio silent="true" />
+                    <visual>
+                        <binding template="ToastImageAndText02">
+                            <image id="1" src="${imgSrc}" name="Image" />
+                            <text id="1">${songInfo.title}</text>
+                            <text id="2">${songInfo.artist}}</text>
+                        </binding>
+                    </visual>
+
+                    <actions>
+                        ${getButton('previous')}
+                        ${songInfo.isPaused ? getButton('play') : getButton('pause')}
+                        ${getButton('next')}
+                    </actions>
+                </toast>`,
+		});
+
+    savedNotification.on("close", (_) => {
+        savedNotification = undefined;
+    });
+
+    savedNotification.show();
+}
+
+const getButton = (kind) => 
+    `<action ${display(kind)} activationType="protocol" arguments="youtubemusic://${kind}"/>`;
+
+const display = (kind) => 
+    config.smallInteractive ?
+        `content="${icons[kind]}"` :
+        `content="" imageUri="file:///${path.resolve(__dirname, "../../assets/media-icons-black", `${kind}.png`)}"`;

plugins/notifications/menu.js

@@ -1,30 +1,40 @@
 const { urgencyLevels, setOption } = require("./utils");
 const is = require("electron-is");
 
-module.exports = (win, options) => [
-	...(is.linux() ?
-		[{
-			label: "Notification Priority",
-			submenu: urgencyLevels.map(level => ({
-				label: level.name,
-				type: "radio",
-				checked: options.urgency === level.value,
-				click: () => setOption(options, "urgency", level.value)
-			})),
-		}] :
-		[]),
-	...(is.windows() ?
-		[{
-			label: "Interactive Notifications",
-			type: "checkbox",
-			checked: options.interactive,
-			click: (item) => setOption(options, "interactive", item.checked)
-		}] :
-		[]),
+module.exports = (_win, options) => [
+	...(is.linux()
+		? [
+				{
+					label: "Notification Priority",
+					submenu: urgencyLevels.map((level) => ({
+						label: level.name,
+						type: "radio",
+						checked: options.urgency === level.value,
+						click: () => setOption(options, "urgency", level.value),
+					})),
+				},
+		  ]
+		: []),
+	...(is.windows()
+		? [
+				{
+					label: "Interactive Notifications",
+					type: "checkbox",
+					checked: options.interactive,
+					click: (item) => setOption(options, "interactive", item.checked),
+				},
+				{
+					label: "Smaller Interactive Notifications",
+					type: "checkbox",
+					checked: options.smallInteractive,
+					click: (item) => setOption(options, "smallInteractive", item.checked),
+				},
+		  ]
+		: []),
 	{
 		label: "Show notification on unpause",
 		type: "checkbox",
 		checked: options.unpauseNotification,
-		click: (item) => setOption(options, "unpauseNotification", item.checked)
+		click: (item) => setOption(options, "unpauseNotification", item.checked),
 	},
 ];

plugins/taskbar-mediacontrol/back.js

@@ -32,22 +32,22 @@ function setThumbar(win, songInfo) {
 	win.setThumbarButtons([
 		{
 			tooltip: 'Previous',
-			icon: get('backward.png'),
+			icon: get('previous'),
 			click() { controls.previous(win.webContents); }
 		}, {
 			tooltip: 'Play/Pause',
 			// Update icon based on play state
-			icon: songInfo.isPaused ? get('play.png') : get('pause.png'),
+			icon: songInfo.isPaused ? get('play') : get('pause'),
 			click() { controls.playPause(win.webContents); }
 		}, {
 			tooltip: 'Next',
-			icon: get('forward.png'),
+			icon: get('next'),
 			click() { controls.next(win.webContents); }
 		}
 	]);
 }
 
 // Util
-function get(file) {
-	return path.join(__dirname, "assets", file);
+function get(kind) {
+	return path.join(__dirname, "../../assets/media-icons-black", `${kind}.png`);
 }

preload.js

@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-require("./providers/front-logger")();
 const config = require("./config");
 const { fileExists } = require("./plugins/utils");
 const setupSongInfo = require("./providers/song-info-front");

providers/front-logger.js

@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-const { ipcRenderer } = require("electron");
-
-function logToString(log) {
-	return (typeof log === "string") ?
-		log :
-		JSON.stringify(log, null, "\t");
-}
-
-module.exports = () => {
-	ipcRenderer.on("log", (_event, log) => {
-		console.log(logToString(log));
-	});
-};

providers/protocol-handler.js

@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+const { app } = require("electron");
+const path = require("path");
+const getSongControls = require("./song-controls");
+
+const APP_PROTOCOL = "youtubemusic";
+
+let protocolHandler;
+
+function setupProtocolHandler(win) {
+	if (process.defaultApp && process.argv.length >= 2) {
+		app.setAsDefaultProtocolClient(
+			APP_PROTOCOL,
+			process.execPath,
+			[path.resolve(process.argv[1])]
+		);
+	} else {
+		app.setAsDefaultProtocolClient(APP_PROTOCOL)
+	}
+	  
+	const songControls = getSongControls(win);
+
+	protocolHandler = (cmd) => {
+		if (Object.keys(songControls).includes(cmd)) {
+			songControls[cmd]();
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+function handleProtocol(cmd) {
+	protocolHandler(cmd);
+}
+
+function changeProtocolHandler(f) {
+	protocolHandler = f;
+}
+
+module.exports = {
+	APP_PROTOCOL,
+	setupProtocolHandler,
+	handleProtocol,
+	changeProtocolHandler,
+};
+
+

providers/song-controls.js

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ const pressKey = (window, key, modifiers = []) => {
 };
 
 module.exports = (win) => {
-	return {
+	const commands = {
 		// Playback
 		previous: () => pressKey(win, "k"),
 		next: () => pressKey(win, "j"),
@@ -21,8 +21,7 @@ module.exports = (win) => {
 		go1sForward: () => pressKey(win, "l", ["shift"]),
 		shuffle: () => pressKey(win, "s"),
 		switchRepeat: (n = 1) => {
-			for (let i = 0; i < n; i++)
-				pressKey(win, "r");
+			for (let i = 0; i < n; i++) pressKey(win, "r");
 		},
 		// General
 		volumeMinus10: () => pressKey(win, "-"),
@@ -50,4 +49,9 @@ module.exports = (win) => {
 		search: () => pressKey(win, "/"),
 		showShortcuts: () => pressKey(win, "/", ["shift"]),
 	};
+	return {
+		...commands,
+		play: commands.playPause,
+		pause: commands.playPause
+	};
 };

providers/song-info.js

@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ const registerProvider = (win) => {
 		await handleData(responseText, win);
 		handlingData = false;
 		callbacks.forEach((c) => {
-			c(songInfo);
+			c(songInfo, "video-src-changed");
 		});
 	});
 	ipcMain.on("playPaused", (_, { isPaused, elapsedSeconds }) => {
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ const registerProvider = (win) => {
 		songInfo.elapsedSeconds = elapsedSeconds;
 		if (handlingData) return;
 		callbacks.forEach((c) => {
-			c(songInfo);
+			c(songInfo, "playPaused");
 		});
 	})
 };

yarn.lock

@@ -3492,11 +3492,6 @@ graceful-fs@^4.2.10:
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/graceful-readlink/-/graceful-readlink-1.0.1.tgz#4cafad76bc62f02fa039b2f94e9a3dd3a391a725"
   integrity sha1-TK+tdrxi8C+gObL5Tpo906ORpyU=
 
-growly@^1.3.0:
-  version "1.3.0"
-  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/growly/-/growly-1.3.0.tgz#f10748cbe76af964b7c96c93c6bcc28af120c081"
-  integrity sha1-8QdIy+dq+WS3yWyTxrzCivEgwIE=
-
 handlebars@^4.7.7:
   version "4.7.7"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/handlebars/-/handlebars-4.7.7.tgz#9ce33416aad02dbd6c8fafa8240d5d98004945a1"
@@ -4148,7 +4143,7 @@ is-windows@^1.0.1:
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/is-windows/-/is-windows-1.0.2.tgz#d1850eb9791ecd18e6182ce12a30f396634bb19d"
   integrity sha512-eXK1UInq2bPmjyX6e3VHIzMLobc4J94i4AWn+Hpq3OU5KkrRC96OAcR3PRJ/pGu6m8TRnBHP9dkXQVsT/COVIA==
 
-is-wsl@^2.1.1, is-wsl@^2.2.0:
+is-wsl@^2.1.1:
   version "2.2.0"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/is-wsl/-/is-wsl-2.2.0.tgz#74a4c76e77ca9fd3f932f290c17ea326cd157271"
   integrity sha512-fKzAra0rGJUUBwGBgNkHZuToZcn+TtXHpeCgmkMJMMYx1sQDYaCSyjJBSCa2nH1DGm7s3n1oBnohoVTBaN7Lww==
@@ -4851,18 +4846,6 @@ node-fetch@^2.6.1, node-fetch@^2.6.7:
   dependencies:
     whatwg-url "^5.0.0"
 
-node-notifier@^10.0.1:
-  version "10.0.1"
-  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/node-notifier/-/node-notifier-10.0.1.tgz#0e82014a15a8456c4cfcdb25858750399ae5f1c7"
-  integrity sha512-YX7TSyDukOZ0g+gmzjB6abKu+hTGvO8+8+gIFDsRCU2t8fLV/P2unmt+LGFaIa4y64aX98Qksa97rgz4vMNeLQ==
-  dependencies:
-    growly "^1.3.0"
-    is-wsl "^2.2.0"
-    semver "^7.3.5"
-    shellwords "^0.1.1"
-    uuid "^8.3.2"
-    which "^2.0.2"
-
 node-releases@^1.1.71:
   version "1.1.72"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/node-releases/-/node-releases-1.1.72.tgz#14802ab6b1039a79a0c7d662b610a5bbd76eacbe"
@@ -5896,11 +5879,6 @@ shebang-regex@^3.0.0:
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/shebang-regex/-/shebang-regex-3.0.0.tgz#ae16f1644d873ecad843b0307b143362d4c42172"
   integrity sha512-7++dFhtcx3353uBaq8DDR4NuxBetBzC7ZQOhmTQInHEd6bSrXdiEyzCvG07Z44UYdLShWUyXt5M/yhz8ekcb1A==
 
-shellwords@^0.1.1:
-  version "0.1.1"
-  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/shellwords/-/shellwords-0.1.1.tgz#d6b9181c1a48d397324c84871efbcfc73fc0654b"
-  integrity sha512-vFwSUfQvqybiICwZY5+DAWIPLKsWO31Q91JSKl3UYv+K5c2QRPzn0qzec6QPu1Qc9eHYItiP3NdJqNVqetYAww==
-
 side-channel@^1.0.4:
   version "1.0.4"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/side-channel/-/side-channel-1.0.4.tgz#efce5c8fdc104ee751b25c58d4290011fa5ea2cf"
@@ -6562,11 +6540,6 @@ uuid@^3.3.2:
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/uuid/-/uuid-3.4.0.tgz#b23e4358afa8a202fe7a100af1f5f883f02007ee"
   integrity sha512-HjSDRw6gZE5JMggctHBcjVak08+KEVhSIiDzFnT9S9aegmp85S/bReBVTb4QTFaRNptJ9kuYaNhnbNEOkbKb/A==
 
-uuid@^8.3.2:
-  version "8.3.2"
-  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/uuid/-/uuid-8.3.2.tgz#80d5b5ced271bb9af6c445f21a1a04c606cefbe2"
-  integrity sha512-+NYs2QeMWy+GWFOEm9xnn6HCDp0l7QBD7ml8zLUmJ+93Q5NF0NocErnwkTkXVFNiX3/fpC6afS8Dhb/gz7R7eg==
-
 v8-compile-cache@^2.0.3:
   version "2.2.0"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/v8-compile-cache/-/v8-compile-cache-2.2.0.tgz#9471efa3ef9128d2f7c6a7ca39c4dd6b5055b132"
@@ -6625,7 +6598,7 @@ which@^1.2.10:
   dependencies:
     isexe "^2.0.0"
 
-which@^2.0.1, which@^2.0.2:
+which@^2.0.1:
   version "2.0.2"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/which/-/which-2.0.2.tgz#7c6a8dd0a636a0327e10b59c9286eee93f3f51b1"
   integrity sha512-BLI3Tl1TW3Pvl70l3yq3Y64i+awpwXqsGBYWkkqMtnbXgrMD+yj7rhW0kuEDxzJaYXGjEW5ogapKNMEKNMjibA==