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Switch from Spotify GUI to TUI#401

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@dhh dhh commented Jul 29, 2025

Two problems blocking this:

  1. The Spotify Player currently does not seem to deal well with Spotify playing on other devices than the current computer. It has a device list, but it's not populated, and some times doesn't even appear.
  2. The swayosd-server won't display the next/prev song title in the overlay.

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guilhermetk commented Jul 29, 2025

  1. You have to manually register an app in your Spotify account and configured its id in the app.toml file: (https://github.com/aome510/spotify-player?tab=readme-ov-file#spotify-connect). I did that and it is working as expected:
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  1. Might be related to the async nature of the prev/next operation using the api (Print Artist - Song after using CLI to control playback aome510/spotify-player#294).

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dhh commented Jul 29, 2025

Hmmm. Step 1 seems like too much work for a default.

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JaxonWright commented Aug 2, 2025

I am not sure this is something we can bake into Omarchy, but a decent middle ground would be to use the standard Spotify binary, but a tool called Spicetify to theme it. The text theme makes it almost look indistinguishable from a TUI

Here is mine with some extra plugins and custom colors as an example:

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