Hi,
After some experimentation, and Spotify-notify (a project on GitHub) having failed me, I found out how to do the following:
1. Control (Next, previous, play/pause) Spotify.exe (running under Wine) with any keys on your keyboard
2. Show the title and artist information of the song switched to in a Ubuntu notification bubble (notify-osd)
This is awesome, because it makes Spotify running under Wine (the best Spotify solution currently available for Linux in my opinion) that more useful, and it feels super native!
Screenshot: http://imgur.com/Y4laM5F
I own an Acer C720 Chromebook running Xubuntu 14.10. I remapped my keys a while ago using this guide:
http://www.reddit.com/r/chrubuntu/co...r_c720/ce2ej5y
The guide:
1. Run this in terminal:2. Download spotify_cmd from this link: https://code.google.com/p/spotifycmd/Code:sudo apt-get install xbindkeys xdotool
3. Put the contents of the .zip (spotify_cmd.exe and spotify_cmd.exe.so) in your home folder.
4. Decide which keys you want to use for 1. Next song, 2. Previous song and 3. Play/pause. (In my case I remapped my F1 key to Greek_NU with xmodmap because F1 already does something in Spotify and Chrome, which I found annoying. I then decided to use Greek_NU for previous song, F2 for next song, and F5 for play/pause)
5. Run the following command:6. Paste these lines in the file:Code:sudo gedit ~/.xbindkeysrc
7. Replace the key symbol names (in red) with the keys you want to use. A list of key symbol names can be found here: http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/...sed_by_XmodmapCode:"xdotool keyup Greek_NU; ./spotify_cmd.exe prev; notify-send -i /usr/share/icons/Numix-Circle/48x48/apps/spotify.svg "Now playing" "`./spotify_cmd.exe status | tail -n +2 | head -1` - `./spotify_cmd.exe status | tail -n +3 | head -2`" --urgency=critical --expire-time=1500" Greek_NU "xdotool keyup F2; ./spotify_cmd.exe next; notify-send -i /usr/share/icons/Numix-Circle/48x48/apps/spotify.svg "Now playing" "`./spotify_cmd.exe status | tail -n +2 | head -1` - `./spotify_cmd.exe status | tail -n +3 | head -2`" --urgency=critical --expire-time=1500" F2 "xdotool keyup F5; ./spotify_cmd.exe playpause; notify-send -i /usr/share/icons/Numix-Circle/48x48/apps/spotify.svg "Play/pause" --expire-time=1000" F5
8. Replace the lines in blue with paths leading to the Spotify icon you want to use. (I use the one from the Numix Circle icon theme)
9. Now run:
It should work now! Run Spotify (running under Wine) and check it out!Code:killall xbindkeys xbindkeys &
Remember, you can be creative with the lines. To give you a start, what my Greek_NU key does is basically run './spotify_cmd.exe prev' to skip to the previous song. "Now playing" is the title of the notification bubble. (You can change this or remove it altogether) Then `./spotify_cmd.exe status | tail -n +2 | head -1` is a command which fetches the artist name from spotify_cmd.exe, and `./spotify_cmd.exe status | tail -n +3 | head -2` fetches the song title. '--expire-time=1500' means that the notification bubble will be displayed for a 1500 milliseconds. The Google Code spotifycmd website lists more commands you could potentially use.
Edit: Found a way to have cover art in the notifications as well
1. Download spotify_buttons.zip: http://www66.zippyshare.com/v/eRZZnYkB/file.html
2. Extract spotify_buttons.zip into your home directory.
3. Bind your keys to 'bash ~/spotify_buttons/previoustrack.sh', 'bash ~/spotify_buttons/nexttrack.sh', and 'bash ~/spotify_buttons/playpause.sh'.
4. Have fun, it looks and works awesome!
(This works by sending artist+title+'cover' to Google and downloading the first square jpg image)
Have fun with it and don't hesitate to ask me questions!
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