spotify-remote

spotify-remote — Control Spotify from the browser

Synopsis

spotify-remote allows you to control Spotify from a browser. Currently it works by talking to Spotify via its AppleScript interface, so only OS X is supported at the moment.

Aim

spotify-remote tries to be as mobile-friendly and battery-friendly as possible, on the client as well as on the server.

Installation

• Install Node.js

• Install spotify-remote in a shell:

  $ npm install -g spotify-remote
  

Update

$ npm install -g spotify-remote

Starting and using spotify-remote

• Make sure Spotify is running.

• Start the spotify-remote server in a shell:

  $ spotify-remote
  

• Open http://localhost:3333 in your browser

If you need a different port, just use the PORT environment variable:

$ PORT=1337 spotify-remote

Credits

• Robin Mehner
• Thorsten Ball
• André Haveman for spotify-node-applescript

Todo

This thing is work in progress and the result of a hack day. It's working relatively well, but of course there's a lot to do. Things that come to mind are:

• Linux support (Spotify is supposed to have a DBUS-Interface)
• Windows support (if anyone is up to it)
• Give this thing a nice design
• Make it even more battery friendly
• Test & fix on Android devices
• Search for Tracks
• Play arbitrary tracks
• Playlist support (as in: see the current track in the playlist)

Contributing

Pull requests are very welcome, hack away and contribute! There is a tiny test suite which you can run with:

$ npm test

If you need any help, don't hesitate to ask!

License

MIT, see LICENSE

Changelog

0.0.3 (February 4th, 2013)

• use simple static file server instead of express
• use touchstart instead of click for touch devices (should be more responsive now)