spotify-control-rust

A simple CLI to control Spotify via D-bus

It was tested on Linux to control Spotify, but as it uses mpris crate behind the scenes, it could control any player that implements MPRIS.

Installation

$ sudo sh -c "curl https://github.com/welcoMattic/spotify-control-rust/releases/download/v0.1.0/spotify-control -L -o /usr/local/bin/spotify-control && chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/spotify-control"

Usage

Controls Spotify from CLI, retrieve current playing data

USAGE:
    spotify-control [SUBCOMMAND]

FLAGS:
    -h, --help       Prints help information
    -V, --version    Prints version information

SUBCOMMANDS:
    help          Prints this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)
    next          send next command to Spotify
    pause         send pause command to Spotify
    play          send play command to Spotify
    play_pause    send play_pause command to Spotify
    previous      send previous command to Spotify
    status        fetch current playing metadata

Polybar

You can use spotify-control to control your Spotify, and display current song in Polybar.

Bar configuration

[bar/main]
modules-center = previous playpause next spotify

Modules configuration (adapt colors to your theme)

[module/previous]
type = custom/script
interval = 86400
format = "%{T3}<label>"
format-padding = 3
exec = echo ""
; Check if spotify is running before displaying the icon
exec-if = "pgrep spotify"
format-underline = #3EC13F
format-foreground = #99D1CE
format-background = #0A0F14
line-size = 1
click-left = "spotify-control previous"

[module/next]
type = custom/script
interval = 86400
format = "%{T3}<label>"
format-padding = 3
; Next song icon
exec = echo ""
; Check if spotify is running before displaying the icon
exec-if = "pgrep spotify"
format-underline = #3EC13F
format-foreground = #99D1CE
format-background = #0A0F14
line-size = 1
click-left = "spotify-control next"

[module/playpause]
type = custom/ipc
hook-0 = echo " "
hook-1 = echo ""
hook-2 = echo ""
initial = 1
format-padding = 4
format-underline = #3EC13F
format-foreground = #99D1CE
format-background = #0A0F14
line-size = 1
click-left = "spotify-control play_pause"

[module/spotify]
type = custom/ipc
hook-0 = echo ""
hook-1 = spotify-control status
initial = 1
format-padding = 3
format-underline = #3EC13F
format-foreground = #99D1CE
format-background = #0A0F14
line-size = 1
; [i3wm only] - Uncomment the below line to focus on Spotify when clicking on the song name (credits to https://github.com/Esya)
click-left = i3-msg '[class="Spotify"] focus'

Resources

• Crate mpris
• Crate clap

Credits

I use the python version of dietervanhoof (https://github.com/dietervanhoof/polybar-spotify-controls) for years, but I wanted an easy-to-install version. Inspired by the C implementation by mihirlad55: https://github.com/mihirlad55/polybar-spotify-module