Desktop Python script (not mobile phone app) that provides global hotkeys to manipulate Spotify playback and user library, including advanced playlist creation/manipulation (see section: Advanced functionality / library manipulation hotkeys). Although it could potentially be integrated or ported into some other application context.

Alas that it's not necessarily simple to set up or use. But, as an overview:

• Get a Spotify Premium account? :/
• Clone this repository
• Install Python and the dependency libraries
• Set up a Spotify Developer app with client id, secret, and web landing page / redirect URL
• Run this script from the directory it is in: python Ansible_for_Spotify.py
• Examine the source code bindings = [ section to figure out which of the function correspond to which of the below detailed hotkeys, and use said hotkeys while playing music from Spotify :) Sorry, at this writing if you don't like the hotkey assignments you must hack them to change them. (See TO DO.)

• create client authorized to manipulate user library, via spotipy library
• read/write/assist setting client keys and user variable in .ini

See the see bindings = [ comment/section in source code for details.

• pause / resume playback
• like (save) currently playing song (add to user "Liked Songs" playlist/library)
• unlike (unsave) currently playing song (remove from the same)
• jump to previous track
• jump to next track
• change repeat mode (none/list/single)

• remove currently playing track from current playlist
• unlike currently playing song, remove from current playlist, and shuffle to discards playlist. (Won't check for nor remove song from additional playlists if it is on them.)
• set currently playing playlist as playlist 1, for operations such as:
  • add currently playing track (from any other playlist or play context, such as recommends queue) to playlist 1
  • shuffle currently playing track (from playlist other than playlist 1) to playlist 1 (remove from current playlist and move to playlist 1)
• Get artist(s) information from currently playing track (artist credit), and create new playlist(s) of all songs of all credited artists (complete discography playlists)
• print currently playing list, song and playlist variables information

Also, a hotkey to exit the program.

• platform-universal systray that displays solid heart if currently playing track in user library, empty heart if not (to help overcome one of Spotify's greatest UI annoyances: the removal of at-a-glance information of whether a song is in the "liked songs" list!) - but to overcome that further, try the old UI via Spot-X
• bookmarks save / load. by hotkey chord? e.g. [key combo to tell script we're saving a bookmark], [key to say which number of bookmark (1-9?)]
• figure out auth and client insantiation better such that it:
  • never crashes if possible
  • maintians or consistently renews authorization (and/or prompts for auth renewal, if possible), to FIX KNOWN ISSUE: the Spotify API seems to routinely reject API authentication, at least the way it's set up here, effectively terminating session/control. More likely to happen after hours of not using the API. Possible solutions here.
• Dynamic (re)defining playlists from/to .ini (including code that dynamically reassigns their associated hotkeys live)
• A dynamic HUD GUI for display / search / assignment of various playlists to various variables (playlist numbers, sort playlist, discard playlist)
• multiple playlist definitions and associated playlist manipulation hotkeys?

• Option to split music found by other artists into other discography playlists when building discography playlist(s)?
• A local synced database to do some of the following (and potentially other things) much faster Playlist building by advanced control / recommendation / parametric control, for example:
• Find every instance of a song in your library (in every playlists, at the custom sort position it is in), and swap it with with another song. Use cases: updating one performance of a standard work (or "classic") for another, or swapping a single for an album track of the same song
  • and optionally delete the replaced song from liked songs
• Build playlists from recommended songs (by base genre/songs seeds), using multigraphs of desired track attributes and genres over time. For example, a rising sine wave of valence of songs, a linear rise of songs tempo, etc.
• Use Spotify's own shuffle logic and user library information to build or extend another playlist: filter all tracks in a playlist which are also in the "Liked Songs" library (playlist) into a temporary list, set shuffle mode, and append everything from the queue to the end of another playlist.
  • Similar multigraphing of track attributes to build or extend a playlists that way
• library import / export (re exportify, but with import also, for example to import arbitrary music (e.g. from prior/other library exports))

Things that inspired this:

• Advanced Controls for Spotify
• Spotify All Artist's Tracks - which generally works well but failed for an artist I really wanted to get the discography for :) and also only creates a discography for one artist; where this here Ansible for Spotify gets discographies for all credited artists for a song.

Because I like to have absolute control of what music I try (instead of relying on nebulous, undefinable AI features--although those have found me many things I love), and try a lot of music, with a lot of playlists, and these hotkeys help me burn through music I don't like likety-split, and find and listen to music I do like faster.