Spotify Terminal

Terminal program to play/control music via Spotify. Some features require a Spotify Premium account.

Install

Requires Python 3. Older versions can be manually installed for Python 2 (See releases: https://github.com/marcdjulien/spotify-terminal/releases)

pip install spotify-terminal

Or clone/download this repository and run:

python setup.py install 

This application uses Unicurse: https://pypi.org/project/UniCurses (A version of this already comes with the checkout)

Usage

Execute the following command to run the program:

spotify-terminal.py [-u username]

Optional: username is either the email associated with your Spotify account or the user id.

? Search

By typing ? you can begin a search..

: Commands

By typing : you can enter commands. The following is a list of all commands:

search [query] | Search for an Artist, Album or Song.

find [index] [query] | Find an entry in the currently list that contains query. The UI will automatically go to the index found entry.

volume [0-100] | Set the volume.

play | Start playing.

pause | Pause the player.

repeat [off|context|track] | Set the repeat mode.

shuffle [True|False] | Set the shuffle mode.

exit | Exit the application.

Other Tips and Tricks

TAB while on an artist's page to toggle between their main page and a list of all of their tracks. This is useful if you want to listen to all tracks by an artist within the same context.

/ is a shortcut to the find command. You can also type n or p to find a next or previous entry (similar to vim).

:q to exit.

Backspace to cycle through previous track listings.

Shift + S on any track to immediately go to the album page.

Shift + D on any track to immediately go to the artist page.

Shift + | to immediately go to the context of the currently playing song.

Shift + X to immediately go to the album page of the currently playing song.

Shift + C to immediately go to the artist page of the currently playing song.

Shift + R to re-sync the player.

Shift + > to play the next song.

Shift + < to play the previous song.

Shift + W to see list of your devices.

Shift + 0-9 to set to set the volume. 1...0 for volume 10...100.

Shift + ` to mute.

Shift + P to add a song to a playlist.

Shift + O to create a new playlist.

DELETE to delete a playlist or song from a playlist.

OS Compatibility

This has only been tested on Linux and Windows with a Spotify Premium account. Briefly on Mac.

32-bit Python only.

Feel free to submit pull requests or tickets for issues.