Soundwave

A Slack bot to remotely control Spotify on a Mac using Applescript. Runs as a menubar app.

Features

• Basic transport functions: ▶️ play, ⏸ pause, ⏮ rewind, ⏭ skip
• Volume control 🔉🤫 / 🔊🤘
• Toggle 🔀 shuffle & 🔁 repeat
• 🎤 Requests for tracks, artists, albums and playlists, with queue and queue shuffle
• Posts currently playing songs (with artwork) and feedback to a Slack channel of your choosing; #feed-now-playing by default
• Configurable banned words to crudely prevent any unwanted requests, and prevent those Slack users from making subsequent requests, until the app is restarted.

Requirements

• A  Mac with Spotify running
• A Slack App with bot (see configuration below)
• Your song requests

Configuration

You'll need to create a Slack App with a bot to act as your DJ. Then install the bot in your Slack workspace and configure Soundwave with a signing secret, App Bot token and Oauth API token.

You'll also need to grab a Spotify Web API client ID and secret.

There are dev and production app configs: config_dev.js and config.js to help with configuration.

Running the dev app from CLI

• npm install
• npm start to run dev variant app from CLI without building a new version. Uses config_dev.js config.

Building the release app

• npm run build Builds the prod app. Uses config.js config.

Cheers!

Originally forked and inspired by https://github.com/markstickley/spotifyslackbot