Comments on: Ubuntu: Lock Screen and Pause Spotify http://muffinresearch.co.uk/archives/2009/10/22/ubuntu-lock-screen-and-pause-spotify/ the personal blog of Stuart Colville covering modern web development techniques and best practices Mon, 21 May 2012 05:48:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tommy http://muffinresearch.co.uk/archives/2009/10/22/ubuntu-lock-screen-and-pause-spotify/comment-page-1/#comment-65510 Tommy Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:09:14 +0000 http://muffinresearch.co.uk/?p=719#comment-65510 Hello Stuart, I wanted something to control my Spotify with from the command line so I can bind the multimedia keys for Spotify use. Your script was a great guide in this. I created the script you can find here: http://sites.google.com/site/tommymattila/home/spotifycontrol It can play/pause and switch to the previous and next songs in spotify at the moment. I needed to use the window class, instead of the title, because for example using chromium-browser and having your page open matches the "Spotify.*"-string you use to identify the window of the running spotify instance. -Tommy Hello Stuart,

I wanted something to control my Spotify with from the command line so I can bind the multimedia keys for Spotify use. Your script was a great guide in this. I created the script you can find here:
http://sites.google.com/site/tommymattila/home/spotifycontrol

It can play/pause and switch to the previous and next songs in spotify at the moment.

I needed to use the window class, instead of the title, because for example using chromium-browser and having your page open matches the “Spotify.*”-string you use to identify the window of the running spotify instance.

-Tommy

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