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Autohotkey spotify9/1/2023 ![]() What I found, was that there still was not a way to control the client with the "ControlSend" command. ![]() Recently though, after a reformat of my computer, I hadn't had the time to set up my old hotkeys yet so I started experimenting with trying to control the new Spotify-Clients. This is the solution that I opted into for quite awhile. The solution for many was simply to install an older version - where the old hotkeys worked - and just prevent the program from updating. Instead of working with their own framework, they started using something like a chrome-App platform.Īfter the update all of the hotkeys that used "ControlSend" stopped working. The above script worked flawlessly for YEARS, and it was the greatest "Quality of Life" script that I had at my disposal for many years to come.Ī couple of years ago (three maybe?) the Spotify-team released a new update to the client that was a total rewrite of the program on their side. Here is part of that script:ĬontrolSend, ahk_parent,, ahk_class SpotifyMainWindow I found a script online that used "ControlSend" to the Spotify window so that it could send commands to it when it was not active. That was the inspiration for me finding Autohotkey all those years ago. Hello! I've been using Spotify since it started and the biggest grief with the program - I think - is the lack of global-hotkey support. I am humble enough to not think that they would target a script by some random person on Reddit. This part of the program has looked the same for almost the entirety of the programs life, so it seems very suspicious that they've updated the thing this script "hooks into" one month after I publish this script.Ĭonspiracy theories withheld though. ![]() In this update they changed how the menu-bar looks and is used, which breaks my script. EDIT: This script doesn't work anymore since Spotify version 1.0.75.483.g7ff4a0dc. ![]()
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