That was kinda my thought as well, especially when the "problem" seemed to actually be "my PC is hooked up to these speakers and I want to control Spotify while

That was kinda my thought as well, especially when the "problem" seemed to actually be "my PC is hooked up to these speakers and I want to control Spotify while using my laptop". I love the pure hack value and I'm sure some of the lessons learned will prove useful since the author mentioned working on USB things in their day job, but I'm sure there's an easier way to control Spotify on one PC from another device. I think they used to even have a remote control device.