Doodle wrote:I primarily use spotify and this skin wasn't initially working with it, I'm not sure what I am doing wrong but at any rate, i really only want a slider bar.
Although I'm not using Spotify (so, I can't test), I'd say probably you don't have installed the Spotify plugin. If you want to use the skin with Spotify, it uses this plugin (which isn't included in Rainmeter, as the NowPlaying is), however it isn't included into the installation package of the skin. So, you have to install it. To do this, first go here:
https://forum.rainmeter.net/viewtopic.php?p=94631#p94631. Download the SpotifyPlugin_1.9.3.0.rmskin file and install it. The correct version of the plugin will be installed to your computer, along with the skin, and you'll be able to use it. You can take a look at the newly installed skin, too, but if you don't need it, you can simply remove it. The plugin remains and you can use it.
If you did all this, try out again your skin. It should work now properly (I hope). Does it?
Doodle wrote:however I do now know how to remove the extra features surrounding it, i.e. the visualizer, song information, and pause, play, skip, go back buttons.
If the skin started to work, but you still want to remove the visualizer, right click the loaded skin, then click Settings in the context menu. The Variables.inc file opens in your default text editor. Replace the value of the Vis variable with 0 (
Vis=0). Refresh the skin. This hides the visualizer AND increases the Update value of the main skin, which is a good thing, because without the visualizer, there is no need of a too small update value.
On the other side, if you never will want to use the visualizer, it'd be a good idea to remove (comment out) the
@Include1=#@#Visualizer/Vis.inc and the
@Include2=#@#Visualizer/VisMeasures.inc options from the skin's code.
To remove the song information, add a
Hidden=1 option to the [ArtistDisplay] and [TrackDisplay] meters of the skin. Again, if you think you will never want to put back these information, you can completely remove these sections.
And finally, to remove the buttons, add the same
Hidden=1 option to the [PrevShape], [PlayShape], [PauseShape] and [NextShape] meters (or again, remove them completely).
Besides all this, without entering too deeply in the code, I'd say you could use the default
Update=1000, instead of the initial formula, used in the skin (which initial formula sets the update to 30 or 60 millisecond, depending on the visibility of the visualizer). Replace the
Update=(#Vis#=1 ? 30:60) option of the [Rainmeter] section, with
Update=1000.