A collection of scripts/utilities that allows you to play your favorite albums without having to suffer through Spotify's horrible UI.
This is Mac-only, and it requires you have the Spotify client installed locally. Also you have to run it with the system python or any PyObjC - enabled python that allows you to use SBApplicationBridge.framework.
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Maintain a collection of albums in the
albums.txtfile, one Spotify URI per line. -
Run ./server.py and visit
http://localhost:9001 -
Click on an album to play in Spotify.
This is also Mac-only. It requires you to have a USB NFC tag reader. It still uses the ScriptingBridge to control a local Spotify client.
Run both the NFC and the NFCListener apps. The first is doing the reading, while the second waits for notifications and communicates with the spotify client. The NFC app has a debug interface but that's not required for day-to-day use, only for writing new values to the tags.
There is a simple data format:
2 byte header: 0x46 0x56 1 byte type - reserved: 0x00 1 byte length of payload.
Currently the type is always 0x00 and that is implied to be spotify. In the future more types can be added and this can support iTunes etc.
Copy-paste gets old fast - you can use the command line BulkWriter application to write a lot of tags in succession - just point it to your albums.txt. It will actually fetch some info from the Spotify Web API to prompt you which tag should go next.
MIT License. See LICENSE.txt