# dlrudie/Snip

Snip will get the artist, track, and album information from Spotify and iTunes, and save the information to a text file.

Repository: https://github.com/dlrudie/Snip
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/snip
Language: C#
License: GPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Last push: 2025-12-14T16:02:29+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 56/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 57, release rhythm 29, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4976, "days_push": 262, "days_rel": 262, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 1}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1115, forks 175 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:38.356362+00:00)

## What it is
Snip is a small Windows system tray application that reads the currently playing track from Spotify or iTunes and writes the artist, track, and album information to text files. It also provides global hotkeys for media control and supports customizable output formats with variables.

## Use cases
- show now playing track in OBS stream overlay
- write current Spotify song to a text file
- display currently playing track on stream
- get artist and album info from iTunes into a file
- control Spotify playback with global hotkeys
- keep a history of played tracks

## When to choose
- you stream on OBS or similar and want a now-playing text file
- you use Spotify or iTunes on Windows and need track info exported
- you want simple media hotkeys with track output

## When to avoid
- you are not on Windows
- you use a music player other than Spotify or iTunes
- you need rich metadata like album art or lyrics

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: developer-tools, workflow-automation
- domain: media, desktop-applications, developer-tools
- platform: windows
- tags: now-playing, spotify, itunes, system-tray, streaming-overlay, text-output, hotkeys, desktop

## Member repositories
- dlrudie/Snip (main) score 56

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:38.356362+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:42:10.319820+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/dlrudie/Snip (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:38.356362+00:00, sha 0d51287270b9)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.