This is a AppleScript for controlling Spotify through Terminal.app.
The scenario for which it was originally designed is controlling Spotify, which is playing on a Mac, via ssh, while working on a Linux computer on the other side of the room.
Currently supported functions are: play/pause, next/previous track, jumping in time, toggling shuffle/repeat and changing volume. This pretty much covers everything the AppleScript hooks of Spotify allow.
Tested to work on OS X Lion and Mountain Lion and Spotify 0.8.4. No guarantees.
You may use, adapt, modify etc. any way you want.
Some small changes:
- added
quit
- shortend
spotify
tospot
- added short-hand for
volume N
=>vol N
I am assuming that if you need to control Spotify through the terminal you know enough about terminal usage.
The simplest way to install the script is just to just download the
script file from the GitHub page and add the line alias spot="osascript /path/to/SpotifyControl.scrpt"
in your .bash_profile
.
If you have git
, even simpler will be to clone this repository with
git clone git://github.com/abshinn/SpotifyControl.git
and then edit
.bash_profile
as above. This will also make it easy to keep up to
date with possible updates to the script.
- To start Spotify playback, type
spot start
orspot play
. If you do this locally and Spotify is not running, it will start. Remotely, Spotify will not start properly. Optionally, pass a Spotify URI as a second argument. - To pause Spotify playback, type
spot stop
orspot pause
. - To toggle playback, type
spot play/pause
. - To go to the next track, type
spot next
. - To go to the previous track, type
spot previous
orspot prev
. - To print information about the currently playing track,
type
spot info
- To jump to a particular time in the track, type
spot jump N
, where N is the track position in seconds. - To fast forward, type
spot forward N
where N is the number of seconds to jump ahead. - To rewind, type
spot rewind N
where N is the number of seconds to jump backwards. - To change volume, type
spot volume N
orspot vol N
where N is a number between 0 and 100. - To toggle shuffle, type
spot shuffle
. - To toggle repeat, type
spot repeat
. - To show a list of these commands, just type
spot
.
To enable the SSH server on OS X, go to Sharing in the System Preferences and enable Remote Login. The Sharing screen will also then tell you the command to use to connect to your Mac in the local network.