spotify-polybar

A polybar module to display the current song and control Spotify playback (with experimental ad-skipping).

Dependencies

dbus
polybar
spotify

Installation

Clone the repo into `~/.config/polybar`:

git clone https://github.com/v15hv4/spotify-polybar ~/.config/polybar/spotify

Include the .ini in your polybar config:

include-file = ~/.config/polybar/spotify/spotify.ini

Enable IPC in your polybar config:

enable-ipc = true

Add modules to bar:

modules-center: spotify spotify-previous spotify-control spotify-next

Skipping Ads

The module can also attempt to automatically skip ads by relaunching Spotify in the background when an ad plays. However, this might be visually disruptive so it's recommended to bind the Spotify app to an unused workspace.

To turn off skipping ads, flip to ADSKIP=0 in spotify.sh.

Binding Spotify to a workspace in i3wm:

for_window [class="Spotify"] move to workspace n       # replace n with desired ws number

Customization

Default glyphs (as used in the screenshot) are from the waffle bitmap font.
They can be changed in spotify.ini as follows:

[module/spotify]
format-prefix = "<icon prefixing current song status>"
format-prefix-foreground = <prefix icon color hex>

[module/spotify-control]
hook-0 = echo "<pause icon>" 
hook-1 = echo "<play icon>"

[module/spotify-next]
exec = echo "<next song icon>"

[module/spotify-previous]
exec = echo "<previous song icon>"

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