This is my Karabiner-elements config, it sets up media keys to work with Spotify, as well as the touch bar controls.

• clone this repo into your ~/.config/karabiner folder

  ⚠️ This will replace your Karabiner-elements config because that's how I would do this if I need it on another computer myself, if you don't want this please manually copy things from the repo instead. Read the karabiner.json to figure out the parts which aren't code and make sure you place the config file in the complex_modifications folder.

  git clone [email protected]:tamm/karabiner-elements-config.git ~/.config/karabiner
  

• disable mac control of media keys

  launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.rcd.plist
  

• if you didn't copy the whole config, add basic modifications for the "TouchBarUserDevice (Apple Inc.)" target device as follows:

  • rewind -> f7
  • play_or_pause -> f8
  • fast_forward -> f9

Seeing as I needed to do a couple of things different from others who have done this I hope it works for you, but I don't make any guarantees. If you make improvements feel free to tell me!

You can put the AppleScript files anywhere you'd like, but I needed to reference them with ~/.config/karabiner/ because my Karabiner-elements defaults to / instead of the folder as described by others.

I got this idea from Remy Sharp's blog and couldn't have made this work without Ralph Callaway's repo Mac-Spotify-Play-Pause-Lock. I also got some inspiration from this answer at StackOverflow.