To show the artist and name of the current playing track on Spotify in your tmux status bar.

Not the first tmux/spotify code. But an attempt to be as simple as possible.

Requirements

• macOS (as we use applescript)
• Spotify

Installation

1. Clone this repository
2. cd into the root of repository-folder
3. Run the install script:

The install script will add the code that acutally adds the output of the spotify-script to your status-bar.

./bin/install.sh

4. When you start playing a song on spotify, it should now show in tmux!

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(Install) options

--filename: Use parameter to specify the name of the file the code should be added to. Default ~/.tmux.conf."

--with-datetime: Add datetime info to your statusbar. Default false"

Customization

If you want to change the code related that generates the name of the track and artist, please alter bin/spotify_artist_and_track.applescript

More spotify commands can be found here: /Applications/Spotify.app/Contents/Resources/Spotify.sdef

Applescript syntax highlighting in nvim

To get syntax highlighting for applescript (in nvim + lua):

1. Download the syntax file for applescript here: https://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1736
2. Add it to the syntax folder for your nvim runtime. You can find the location by executing the following command in nvim.

:echo $VIMRUNTIME . '/syntax'

3. Make sure nvim recognises the filetype by adding the following to a lua script file that is used (for example init.lua)

vim.filetype.add({
	extension = {
		applescript = "applescript",
	},
})