This document discusses how to get Spotify visualizations and the now playing feature in Rainmeter. It provides instructions on downloading Rainmeter and Spotify skins for Rainmeter. It also explains that since Spotify updates frequently break Rainmeter skins, an alternative is to use TunesKit Spotify Music Converter to download Spotify songs as local files, then play them through a media player that Rainmeter can integrate with to display the now playing info.

1. Solved: Rainmeter
Spotify Visualizer & Now
Playing Feature
One of the downsides of Spotify is when you want some
visual effects react to what’s been playing on Spotify, you

2. can’t possibly find some on the app. But here comes
Rainmeter, a desktop customization tool that helps you
visualize everything that’s been streaming on Spotify.
So in the following parts, we’re going to be looking at how
to how to get Rainmeter Spotify visualizer and the
now playing feature. Also we’ll show you how to
troubleshoot Rainmeter Spotify not working issue.
How to Get Spotify Plugin for Rainmeter
In this part, I will show you how to get the Spotify
Visualizer via Rainmeter. After that you’ll also learn how to
get the now playing plugin on Rainmeter.
Spotify Rainmeter Visualizer
For the Spotify visualizer, actually there’re tons of them on
the internet. As long as they can be properly run, then they
can visualize what’s playing on Spotify. Here I’m going to
show you one of them to make your desktop react to
Spotify songs.

3. 1. Go to www.rainmeter.net to download the latest
version of Rainmeter and install it on your computer. It’s
totally safe if you download the tool from the official site.
2. Go
to drive.google.com/drive/folders/1OrdSibB5s_rAy5maU
Cn0Cf9bZpt8CwtI to download the Rainmeter skins. Of
course you can pick a skin that you like on websites like
Deviantart.
3. Unzip the RAR file then copy the Simple Epoca file and
paste it to Documents/Rainmeter/Skins.
4. Open Rainmeter and click Refresh all at the bottom left.
5. The Simple Epoca skins should be added to your skin
list, double-click on it and find the Visualizer.
6. Click on one of the visualizers and then click Load, then
the visualizer will appear on your desktop.
7. Now play a song on Spotify, then the visualizer will react
to the sound coming from Spotify.

4. 8. You can right-click the visualizer > Settings > Draggable
to adjust the position of the visualizer. And you also can
click Edit Skin to change the parameters to make it look
more natural.

5. Spotify Now Playing Feature on
Rainmeter
There used to be many skins on Rainmeter that can show
the now playing status with a slick interface. But as Spotify
updates frequently, all of them can’t work properly right
now. Some of them still can control the Spotify playback,
but they just won’t show the album art and the song
information anymore.
So how to show Spotify now playing song information and
control the playback on your desktop? Keep reading.
Show Spotify Now Playing on Rainmeter
Since you can’t technically show what’s playing on Spotify
through the widget on Rainmeter, the only way to display
Spotify songs is to play them as local files and show what’s
been playing on your local media player. But how can you
download Spotify songs?
With TunesKit Spotify Music Converter, you can directly
download all your Spotify songs to your computer without
Premium. Then you can play these songs on any media

6. player like Windows Media Player. On Rainmeter, set the
default player as the player you’re using to play the
downloaded Spotify songs, then you can get the now
playing feature.

7. TunesKit Spotify Music Converter is designed to
convert Spotify audio files into 6 different formats such as
MP3, AAC, M4A, M4B, WAV and FLAC. Almost 100% of
the original song quality will be kept after converting
process. With 5X faster speed, it only takes few seconds to
download each song from Spotify.
1 Launch TunesKit and Import Songs
from Spotify

8. Open TunesKit software and the Spotify will be launched
simultaneously. Then drag and drop tracks from Spotify
into the TunesKit interface.
2 Set Up Output Parameters

9. After adding music tracks from Spotify to TunesKit, you
can choose the output audio format. There’re six options
including MP3, M4A, M4B, AAC, WAV and FLAC. And
then you can adjust the audio quality by selecting the
output channel, bit rate, and sample rate.

10. 3 Start the Conversion
Once all the setting is finished, click the “Convert” button
to start loading Spotify music tracks. After the conversion,
all the files will be saved to your specified folder. You could

11. browse all the converted songs by clicking “Converted” and
navigate to the output folder.
4 Get Now Playing Feature on Rainmeter
After download Spotify songs to your computer, you can
access them on your file manager. And you can play them
without the Spotify app with the default media player. To
show what you’re playing on Rainmeter:
1. Open a Player skin and go to Settings.
2. Choose the name of the player you want to play
downloaded Spotify songs with.
3. Play Spotify songs on that player and the now playing
feature will show on your desktop.