Advanced Controls for Spotify
With Advanced Controls for Spotify you can go through your music much faster! You can set any number of (advanced) keyboard shortcuts for Spotify actions.
What can you do with it?
- You can listen to your Release Radar by just checking out the good parts of every song. Jump straight the drop or the next section of music.
- You can set global hotkeys to skip back or forward. By seconds, beats or percentage.
- You can fly through playlists quickly finding that certain style you really like!
- Use keyboard controls for any device that can play Spotify
And much more, see below or just download and try it out. Spotify Premium is required.
Download
You can download Advanced Controls for Spotify here:
Quick start
Just run the app and it will live next to your clock. You need to login to Spotify (Premium required) with it once and then you can start using it.
Choose a premade hotkey template or create your own.
Screenshots
Features
This app gives you full control over your Spotify keyboard controls (hotkeys). These hotkeys are global and work at any time.
A hotkey is bound to an action.
The following actions are available:
| Action | Description |
| Play/pause | Toggles play or paused |
| Smart jump | Jumps to the "drop", the high energy part of the song |
| Jump to next section | Jumps to the next section of music |
| Jump to previous section | Jumps to the previous section of music |
| Jump forward | Jump forward by a given amount of seconds, beats or percentage |
| Jump backward | Jump backward by a given amount of seconds, beats or percentage |
| Jump to time | Jump to a set position in the song, by seconds or percentage |
| Go to next song | Starts playing the next song |
| Go to previous song | Starts playing the previous song |
| Go to last liked song | Starts playing the most recent liked song |
| Go to random song | Starts playing a random song in the current queue |
| Like current song | Like the currently playing song |
| Unlike current song | Unlike the currently playing song |
| Like and go to next song | Like the currently playing song and start playing the next song |
| Set volume | Set volume to a given percentage |
| Change volume | Increases or reduces volume by a given percentage |
Technical Stuff
The following Spotify permissions are used:
| Scope | Reason |
user-modify-playback-state | Basic back/forward controls |
user-read-currently-playing | To get song analysis |
user-read-playback-state | In order to toggle play/pause |
user-library-modify | Liking and unliking of songs |
user-library-read | To play most recently liked song |
Spotify Premium is required by the Spotify API to change your playback.
Contact
Problems? Feature request? Found a bug? Feel free to send me a mail.