Spotify's "player state" is available in the editor, but in a packaged app, it gets only "«constant ****kPSP»"

Question

Here's a testing code:

tell application "Spotify"
    set playerState to player state as string
end tell
display dialog playerState

Works fine from the AppleScript editor. However, when I export my script as an app, all I get is this:

Why is this happening?

Answer 1

It's better to use this code to obtain the player state. You don't need to know the exact constant values. Works on OS X 10.13

tell application "Spotify"
    if player state is playing then
        display dialog "Player running"
    else if player state is paused then
        display dialog "Player paused"
    else if player is stopped then
        display dialog "Player is stopped"
    else
        display dialog "Unknow state"
    end if
end tell

Answer 2

I wasn't able to comment adayzdone's answer yet here's an alternative:

if player state is playing or player state is paused then

E.G

if application "Spotify" is running then
    
    tell application "Spotify"
        
        if player state is playing or player state is paused then
            
            set trackID to (get id of current track)
            
        end if
        
    end tell
    
end if

This atleast worked on Catalina (10.15.7) when working on a Spotify-Applescript project of my own.

The source of the idea came from this thread.