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Desktop Application Python

SpotiLike-GUI

Save Spotify songs on-the-go while you're listening, to your Liked Songs library or your favourite playlists with custom hotkeys all through your keyboard! - The Graphical User Interface version

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SpotiLike-GUI

Save Spotify songs on-the-go while you’re listening to your Liked Songs library or your favorite playlists with custom hotkeys!

This app allows you to instantiate a global hotkey thread to save a currently playing Spotify song to your Liked Songs library or a playlist of your chosing. This lets you not have to re-open Spotify to like/save a song. I wrote this simple script because I found it annoying that I had to re-open Spotify just to save a song that I liked. I did not want to interrupt my workflow but at the same time didn’t want to miss a cool track either!

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Home page

Settings Help area

Usage

A simple guide on how to use the app is placed in the ‘help’ tab within the app itself.

Installation

:warning: The app is still in BETA, may have so many bugs.

You can install a bundled version of the app here:

https://www.mediafire.com/file/fipz7kses6jqx9k/SpotiLike.zip/file

Bundling the app yourself

I used the package cx_Freeze to bundle the app.

You can find the setup file in src/setup.py .

Run:

$ python setup.py build

However, if you are using any other way to bundle the app, you must consider the below stated requirements:

  1. A Spotify app should be created from the Spotify Developer Portal. Please make sure to set a Redirect URI to be http://localhost:9000 in the app settings.

  2. A valid CLIENT_ID and CLIENT_SECRET should be passed in SpotiLike.py. You can find these two variables at line 42 and 43.

  3. Now you can get the app working, to bundle the app, keep in mind the app requires the ‘assets’ folder, the ‘uis’ folder and also the ‘config’ folder.

    • assets - contains all the icons for the app and playlist image data
    • uis - contains the user interface style files.
    • config - contains all user settings and user data

Library requirements:

  • pynput - for handling keyboard events

  • PyQT5 - GUI

  • spotipy - handling Spotify data

  • fuzzywuzzy - match inputted hotkey strings

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