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> I got tired of the friction around opening Spotify, going into my work playlist, hitting play, waiting several moments for the playlist to load, etc, so I dow
by aasasd 5y ago
> I got tired of the friction around opening Spotify, going into my work playlist, hitting play, waiting several moments for the playlist to load, etc, so I downloaded a bunch of mp3s from YouTube and put them in ~/Music/work/. Now my work music is a single keyboard shortcut (semicolon+m) and a few miliseconds away.
Aka how everyone did it before Spotify took off.
But actually, I'm told time and again that Spotify has some APIs to control it—presumably when desktop apps are used (dunno for sure because don't use it myself). Personally I'd use Alfred for that over shortcuts.
- avgcorrection 5y agoYes. There are terminal applications to control Spotify. You need to add an API key in order to use them/it. So apparently you can write your own controller. The Spotify app also has to be running in order to use the terminal application (at least the one that I tried).
- aasasd 5y agoMore to the point, Hammerspoon itself has functions to control Spotify: http://www.hammerspoon.org/docs/hs.spotify.html http://www.hammerspoon.org/docs/hs.spotify.html