Counsel Spotify

Little Emacs package to control Spotify app through an Ivy interface.

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. Isaac Newton

This package is basically a port of helm-spotify and helm-spotify-plus with an Ivy interface. Many thanks to the authors of those for their amazing work!

Dependencies

Ivy

Notes on Spotify Web API authentication

You'll need to register an application in Spotify in order to obtain a client id and a client secret. Then, you'll have to set the variables counsel-spotify-client-id and counsel-spotify-client-secret variables with your credentials to start using the search feature

How to use it

This package exposes these search functions:

• counsel-spotify-search-track
• counsel-spotify-search-album
• counsel-spotify-search-artist
• counsel-spotify-search-playlist
• counsel-spotify-search-tracks-by-album
• counsel-spotify-search-tracks-by-artist

The options are fetched from Spotify REST API. Hitting RET while selecting an option will start playing that track or album (depending on what the search were). Also, hitting M-o will prompt a tiny menu with some more actions to choose from (for example, choosing to play the entire album a song belongs to)

Controllers

There are defined some basic controllers for the Spotify App

Action	Function
Play	counsel-spotify-play
Toggle play/pause	counsel-spotify-toggle-play-pause
Next song	counsel-spotify-next
Previous song	counsel-spotify-previous

What if I want to use another Spotify client (like Mopidy or Spotifyd)?

Well, in that case I think you would be interested in two variables:

• counsel-spotify-service-name is the name of the DBUS service counsel-spotify calls to handle the reproduction of a song
• counsel-spotify-use-system-bus-p for some clients that use the system bus instead of the session