If you decided to go with Spotify after Rdio was bought but, like me, you miss Rdio's light UI, you're in luck—I discovered that you can skin the Spotify app with CSS.
Disclaimer: I have nothing but respect for the Spotify design and engineering teams, and undertaking this project has served only to increase that respect. They're really, really brilliant teams doing things that I admire greatly. I appreciate the design decisions they made while designing the app, but I prefer a light theme in my apps, so this project is merely an attempt to cater to my love of Rdio, not to do it "better" than the Spotify team did.
IMPORTANT: Make sure you allow opening applications from anywhere in your Mac's Security preferences, otherwise this app will not work.
Make sure you quit (cmd + q) your local Spotify.app before launching my version, otherwise my version won't launch.
Download the latest release: https://github.com/devinhalladay/spotio/releases/latest.
- Add a Grunt task to setup the local repo for people who have just cloned this repo for development.
- Add documentation guide for contributing to this repo.
- Design new icons for the app for
v1.1public release. - HIGH PRIORITY: Figure out how to get access to the rendered DOM from Chromium Embedded Framework so I can fully style all elements.
- Streaming build system so I don't need to keep rebuilding and recompiling every single Sass file when I make a single change.
Originally, I used bash scripts to manage development for this app, but I switched to a streaming build system using Grunt.
sudo grunt: Build all CSS and watch for changessudo grunt clean:spa: Deletes all.spafiles from .tmp/Spotify.appsudo grunt clean:oldApps: Deletes old apps in .tmpsudo grunt download: Downloads latest spotify binary and places it in .tmp/sudo grunt shell:extract: Extracts the most recently downloaded Spotify.app from .tmp/Spotify.dmgsudo grunt compress: Compress your Spotify.app into a distributable .zipsudo grunt copy:icon: Copies the custom icon into dist/Spotify.app
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