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by spike021 791 days ago
Nice! Back in around 2012 or so Spotify still didn't even do MacOS notifications so I rigged up an easy AppleScript to do it (I want to say with Growl first and a bit later with native notifications? Been a while).

It's always surprising to me that Spotify/Apple Music/etc. don't seem to want to natively add functionality like this to their UX.
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jonathang6k 790 days ago
Yep! The current release actually still uses AppleScript. The next release will use Scripting Bridge to hook into the app's playback state change events. Much more efficient.
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actionfromafar 791 days ago
Spotify wants you to spend time in their app. Apple is just doing Apple things, I guess.
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vsnf 791 days ago
Not that I want to spend any time at all in their app. Each passing day it gets simultaneously more neglected, and also receives random UX overhauls that make my life worse.
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guappa 791 days ago
I am starting to think that having designers as full time employees is counter productive.
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luigi23 790 days ago
They dont care if you want it or not. Spotify also doesnt provide shortcuts on ios, so its all planned. They want to farm real user actions and engagements, not applescripts.
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spike021 790 days ago
FWIW Apple always had an iTunes "now playing" thing for iChat back in the day so it's not like nobody over there thought of doing something like that.
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