Spotio for Spotify.app

HELP NEEDED

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 own selfish desires, not to do it "better" than the Spotify team did.

Download

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: v1.0.

HELP NEEDED!

I really need help coming up with a way to deal with updates to the Spotify app. Currently there is no good way to diff the Spotio assets with the default Spotify.app assets because I am regenerating all assets during the build process.

If anyone is up for the challenge and wants to help me come up with a way to handle updates, I will be forever in your debt.

To-do

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 v1.1 public 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.

Known Skin Issues

I'm not yet sure how to handle the update cycle for the Spotify app. I don't know exactly how updates directly from Spotify will effect Spotio. For the time-being, please avoid updating your Spotify.app until I have figured out a new release cycle.
Contrast is an issue in some areas, but this is being fixed.
~~Some album or artist header images are styled on Spotify's servers so they break the Spotio skin's look and feel, often making header text unreadable. I'm working on a workaround for this.~~ Fixed as of v0.9b3

Development

Originally, I used bash scripts to manage development for this app, but I switched to a streaming build system using Grunt.

Known Development Issues

I'm not yet sure how to handle the update cycle for the Spotify app. I don't know exactly how updates directly from Spotify will effect Spotio. For the time-being, please avoid updating your Spotify.app until I have figured out a new release cycle.
Some Grunt tasks need to be tweaked to make cloning the repo for development easier.

Grunt Tasks

sudo grunt: Build all CSS and watch for changes
sudo grunt clean:spa: Deletes all .spa files from .tmp/Spotify.app
sudo grunt clean:oldApps: Deletes old apps in .tmp
sudo 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.dmg
sudo grunt compress: Compress your Spotify.app into a distributable .zip

License

MIT License

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

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