riivanov / spotify-control

Control spotify from the command line!

spotify-control

Control Spotify from the command line!

This tool allows me to (relatively easily) control Spotify from the command line.

The following commands are available:

• play-pause starts or stops playback or music
• next goes to the next song
• previous goes to the previous song
• now-playing sends a notification of the song currently playing
• play-song allows you to play a song using the following options
  • uri spotify:track:id will play the track pointed to by id, artist and album work as well
  • search name of song will search spotify for a song matching the name, and play the first result. By using search -l|--list name of song you will get a simple selector where you can pick one of the first 5 results. Using -c|--count n in addition to -l you can instead display the first n songs.

With the flag -s|--service-name you can specify a different service to send the request to. Other mediaplayers (like vlc for instance) migth use a similar api so they can be controlled using this program as well.

Example

$ spotify-control play-pause

$ spotify-control play-song uri spotify:track:4cOdK2wGLETKBW3PvgPWqT

$ spotify-control play-song search megalovania

Installing

After cloning the repo, using cargo install --path . can be used to install it to $HOME/.cargo/bin. So if that folder is added to your path you can run it from everywhere.

If you use Arch Linux, you can also install it from the AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/spotify-control

Notes

This only works on Linux, since it uses the DBus api.

There's also no guarantee at all that the search actually works, it seems to be a bit finicky at times...