🎵nvim-spotify

For productivity addicts who enjoy coding while listening to Spotify, and cannot lose their focus switching to the app to control their music.

nvim-spotify requires spotify-tui

Features

• Display/Filter the search results with Telescope

• Currently playing statusline.

• Pause/Resume a track #

• Skip a track

• Add a track to the library

• Display the name of what's being played

• Select which device to play on

• Search by:

  • Track (<C-T> or CR)
  • Album (<C-L>)
  • Playlist (<C-Y>)
  • Artist (<C-R>)

Requirements

nvim-spotify is a wrapper for spotify-tui, therefore, it is required for this plugin to work. Check their Github repository for installation instructions

• Spotify TUI
• Golang
• Telescope

Installation

packer

-- Lua
use {
    'KadoBOT/nvim-spotify',
    requires = 'nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim',
    config = function()
        local spotify = require'nvim-spotify'

        spotify.setup {
            -- default opts
            status = {
                update_interval = 10000, -- the interval (ms) to check for what's currently playing
                format = '%s %t by %a' -- spotify-tui --format argument
            }
        }
    end,
    run = 'make'
}

vim-plug

Plug 'KadoBOT/nvim-spotify', { 'do': 'make' }

Notes

Decreasing the update_interval value means more API calls in a shorter period. Because of the Spotify API rate limiter, setting this too low can block future requests. Besides that, those constant updates can make your computer slow. So bear this in mind when changing this value.

Usage

By default, the search will look for tracks. You can switch the type of the search by pressing one of the Keymaps Shortcuts

nvim-spotify has two commands:

Connecting to a Device

Use this command to select which device Spotify should play on.

:SpotifyDevices

Opening search input

Spotify Search input. Check the keymaps below for Search shortcuts.

:Spotify

Default keymaps

The following keymaps are set by default when the Spotify search input is open:

mode	key	Description
normal	Esc	Close
normal	q	Close
normal, insert	C-T	Search for Tracks
normal, insert	C-Y	Search for Playlists
normal, insert	C-L	Search for Albums
normal, insert	C-R	Search for Artists

Extra keymaps

You can also define the additional following keymaps

vim.api.nvim_set_keymap("n", "<leader>sn", "<Plug>(SpotifySkip)", { silent = true }) -- Skip the current track
vim.api.nvim_set_keymap("n", "<leader>sp", "<Plug>(SpotifyPause)", { silent = true }) -- Pause/Resume the current track
vim.api.nvim_set_keymap("n", "<leader>ss", "<Plug>(SpotifySave)", { silent = true }) -- Add the current track to your library
vim.api.nvim_set_keymap("n", "<leader>so", ":Spotify<CR>", { silent = true }) -- Open Spotify Search window
vim.api.nvim_set_keymap("n", "<leader>sd", ":SpotifyDevices<CR>", { silent = true }) -- Open Spotify Devices window
vim.api.nvim_set_keymap("n", "<leader>sb", "<Plug>(SpotifyPrev)", { silent = true }) -- Go back to the previous track
vim.api.nvim_set_keymap("n", "<leader>sh", "<Plug>(SpotifyShuffle)", { silent = true }) -- Toggles shuffle mode

Statusline

You can display what's currently playing on your statusline. The example below shows how to show it on lualine, although the configuration should be quite similar on other statusline plugins:

local status = require'nvim-spotify'.status

status:start()

require('lualine').setup {
    sections = {
        lualine_x = {
            status.listen
        }
    }
}