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Spotify

Bowser65 edited this page Jul 12, 2020 · 8 revisions

The Spotify modal is a small box on top of the user information bar that'll act as a small remote control module. It aims to remove the need of having Spotify open on your monitor at all times, as you'll be able to control Spotify straight from Discord. And it gets darn close, if I have to say so myself.

Setup

The Spotify modal ships with Powercord by default - and will work out of the box, to some extent.
By default, the modal will use Spotify access tokens provided by Discord, but unfortunately, their tokens are missing certain scopes for functionality the modal would otherwise be able to offer.
And for that reason, by default, the Songs and Albums submenu items will not be able to work until you set up the custom authorization flow. You also won't be able to see privated playlists under the Playlists submenu item.

Luckily, setting up the custom authorization flow is simple:

  1. Visit https://powercord.dev/
  2. Log in with Discord in the upper right hand corner
  3. Go to My Account in the upper right hand corner and authenticate with Spotify
  4. With Powercord enabled, go into User Settings -> Powercord general settings -> Link it now (that will get your Spotify token for you)
  5. Restart your Discord client (Ctrl+r).

Usage

When untouched, the modal looks like this:

and upon hovering the bottom progress bar, a seek handle is revealed - allowing you to seek to timestamps in the song:

The majority of the functionality is accessed through the right click context menu. Right clicking the modal anywhere brings up a menu:

The menu suboptions are pretty self explanatory - see this gif.

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