Scopestify

Going from Charli XCX to Nils Frahm with the keyboard only

A Windows Command Palette plugin to quickly control Spotify playback without leaving your current application and losing focus

Liking the currently playing track
Seeing more info about the currently playing track

For a while, I had made a custom script to automatically like a track on spotify when pressing a keyboard shortcut, without having to open the app, while I was doing high-focus work. But I always thought that doing a little more without opening the app would be nice too: adding the current track to a playlist, searching for something to play…

Seeing your playlists. You can add the currently playing track to one of them from here

I stumbled upon this PowerToy, that happens to be extensible, meaning you can write your own commands! This was also a great opportunity to learn some C#, a programming language I had never used before. I quickly added a bunch of features, and I can now do almost anything I need from the command palette, without ever opening the Spotify app.

Looking at the tracks of an album

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