Customize Spotify via spicetify-cli
Created: Sep 22,
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Below are rough notes covering customization of your spotify client via
spicetify-cli. The stream was recorded and is available here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/749039165
Links:
- spicetify-cli repo: https://github.com/khanhas/spicetify-cli
- community themes repo (link to the wiki's themes preview) https://github.com/morpheusthewhite/spicetify-themes/wiki/Themes-preview
- link to this post: http://russmatney.com/notes/20200922160031-customize_spotify_via_spicetify_cli/
- subreddit: /r/unixporn: https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/
Spicetify is a tool that allows you to customize the face of your spotify desktop client.
Spotify uses electron as a base, so the client is roughly a web-app.
Spicetify provides some tooling to support a dev experience on top of the client
itself:
- Enables dev-mode, allowing element inspection and reload/refreshing
- Inject custom css, html, and javascript (themes, extension, and apps)
Stream outline:
- Show discovery via /r/unixporn
- Install spicetify-cli on linux (via directions in repo)
- Enable and Apply a custom theme or two
- Dribbblish extra install step and demo
- enable and test extensions
- full-screen
- shuffle+
- enable and test reddit custom app
- add a few subreddits: triphop, jazzhop, idm
Some nice wins:
- nice set of themes to choose from
- simple discovery of new music via reddit custom app
- keyboardShortcuts.js extension
- add vimium-style keyboard shortcuts to spotify