awesome-wm-widgets/_widgets/spotify-widget.md

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Spotify widget

This widget displays currently playing song on Spotify for Linux client:  and consists of two parts:

• status icon which shows if music is currently playing
• artist and name of the current song playing

Controls

• left click - play/pause
• scroll up - play next song
• scroll down - play previous song

Dependencies

Note that widget uses the Arc icon theme, so it should be installed first under /usr/share/icons/Arc/ folder.

Installation

1. Install sp - CLI client for Spotify for Linux:

   $ sudo git clone https://gist.github.com/fa6258f3ff7b17747ee3.git ~/dev/
   $ sudo ln -s ~/dev/sp /usr/local/bin/
   

   Check if it works by running sp help.

2. Get an 'id' and 'secret' from developer.spotify.com and paste it in the header of the sp (SP_ID and SP_SECRET) - this enables search feature.

3. Clone this repo under ~/.config/awesome/

   git clone https://github.com/streetturtle/awesome-wm-widgets.git ~/.config/awesome/
   

4. Require spotify-widget at the beginning of rc.lua:

   local spotify_widget = require("awesome-wm-widgets.spotify-widget.spotify")
   

5. Add widget to the tasklist:

   s.mytasklist, -- Middle widget
       { -- Right widgets
           layout = wibox.layout.fixed.horizontal,
           ...
           spotify_widget,
           ...