Replace ITunes with Spotify

[anil]

I'd love to control my music using the remote. Unfortunately it seems like it's hooked up for ITunes. The music function keys on my keyboard will pause/play Spotify, I really wish the Remote had the same functionality.

 

I'm sure some tinkering can mimic this - but Spotify (and other music service) integration out of the box would be nice. Non-itunes music sources are far from rare these days

 

 

[Andrew]

I'd love to control my music using the remote. Unfortunately it seems like it's hooked up for ITunes. The music function keys on my keyboard will pause/play Spotify, I really wish the Remote had the same functionality.

 

I'm sure some tinkering can mimic this - but Spotify (and other music service) integration out of the box would be nice. Non-itunes music sources are far from rare these days

 

Take a look at this amazing workflow, which includes 3 built in remote pages for controlling Spotify:

 

http://alfred-spotify-mini-player.com

 

Cheers,

Andrew

[rice.shawn]

I'm just chiming in to +1 the recommendation for the Spotify Mini Player workflow that Andrew mentioned. It's incredibly well polished and amazing. Vdesabou did an amazing job with it and keeps actively developing it.

 

Here it is on Packal, too: http://www.packal.org/workflow/spotify-mini-player.

[anil]

Thanks for the tip guys. My main interest is pausing and skipping tracks so it seems like a bit of overkill at the moment (it's currently downloading 13K pieces of artwork). But it sure does look polished