Show a nice menu to control Spotify application.
- Linux
- tmux >= 3.0
- Spotify application (if you use cotained installs like Snap or Flatpak, make sure Spotify can communicate with DBus)
With Tmux Plugin Manager
Add the plugin in .tmux.conf:
set -g @plugin 'malanius/tmux-spotify-linux#main'
Press prefix + I to fetch the plugin and source it. Done.
Clone the repo somewhere. Add run-shell in the end of .tmux.conf:
run-shell PATH_TO_REPO/tmux-spotify.tmux
NOTE: this line should be placed after set-option -g status-right ....
Press prefix + : and type source-file ~/.tmux.conf. Done.
Spotify must be running to use the plugin, the menu will tell you if not. (for some reason, xdg-open doesn't work well with Spotify, i.e. if you have Spotify running and playing on other device, xdg-open will open a new instance of Spotify and breaks the playback everywhere and got mine mobile app completely stuck reliably) - thoughts or PRs welcome!
Press tmux prefix + S (for example, C-a S) and you will see a nice menu.
* Play/Pause (p) - toggle play/pause
* Next (n) - play the next track
* Previous (b) - play the current track from the beggining or play the previous track
* Turn on shuffle (s) - switch on/off current playlist's shuffling
* Copy URL (c) - copy Spotify URL of the current track to the clipboard
* Toggle repeat (r) - switcher repet mode between none, playlist and track
* Close menu (q) - close menu
* Play/Pause (p) - toggle play/pause
* Back 15s (b) - seek back 15 seconds
* Forward 15s (f) - seek forward 15 seconds
* Copy URL (c) - copy Spotify URL of the current podcast to the clipboard
This is a Linux rewrite of tmux-spotify levaraging dbus to control Spotify. The original plugin uses AppleScript to control Spotify on macOS.
There is another Linux version of the plugin, but that depends on Python-based spotify-cli-linux, so another dependency and it doesn't do all the things I've wanted (seek, copy URL and others).
But since almost every media player on Linux supports MPRIS, Spotify included (after some peer pressure from the community it mostly works), I've decided to write a plugin that uses MPRIS to control Spotify.
- xamut for the original plugin that inspired this
- pwittchen for the Python cli app that showed me that using MPRIS is possible
- creators of D-Spy which has been invaluable in figuring out how to control Spotify via MPRIS and DBus
- Zed Erevanayen for being there along the way, pushing me to finish this and taking me to places where most of this was written
tmux-spotify-linux plugin is released under the MIT License.