Spotman

Spotman is a command-line controller and metadata gathering tool for the Spotify media player on Linux.

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Installation

$ git clone https://gitlab.com/EndowTheGreat/spotman.git
$ cd spotman
$ make

Usage

Usage:
  spotman [command]

Available Commands:
  help        Help about any command
  metadata    Fetch the metadata for the current song
  next        Skip to the next song
  previous    Skip to the previous song
  playpause   Toggle play/pause on the current song
  pause       Pause the current song
  play        Play the current song

Flags:
  -h, --help   help for spotman

Use "spotman [command] --help" for more information about a command.

Additionally, you can specify which metadata attribute to fetch.

Fetch the metadata for the current song

Usage:
  spotman metadata [flags]

Flags:
      --attribute string   Metadata attribute to fetch
  -h, --help               help for metadata

An example of this would look like:

$ spotman metadata --attribute title

Contributing

Contributions are always welcome. Spotman is built with extensibility in mind, and it is relatively easy to create new commands. If you plan on doing so, a helpful resource for this is the MPRIS D-Bus Interface Specification.